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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0971. Milestone. Mile III. Caracalla.

Description: A columnar milestone, of "typical local stone" (solita pietra locale). No measurements.
Text: Inscribed on the face, which is partly concealed in the wall
Letters: No description.

Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Al Khums: Found in the Sidi ben-Gehb Mosque in 1917, having been transported there in 1885-6.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

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[M(arco) Aurelio Antonino]
Pio Felici Aug(usto) Parthico ma-
ximo Brittanico maxi-
mo Germanico maximo
pontifici maximo tribu-
5xiciae (sic) potestatis XVIIII
imp(eratori) III co(n)s(uli)IIII p(atri) p(atriae) pro co(n)s(uli)
( vac. 8) III ( vac. 8)

Diplomatic

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PIOFELICIAUGPARTHICOMA
XIMOBRITTANICOMAXI
MOGERMANICOMAXIMO
PONTIFICIMAXIMOTRIBU
5XICIAE(sic)POTESTATISXVIIII
IMPIIICOSIIIIPPPROCOS
                III                

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, proconsul. (Milestone) 3.

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1925b, 9, pages 145-6; listed Goodchild, 1948, 37 page 24, without transcription; IRT, 1952, 971, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 971, EDH 059809

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