Milestone Domitian.
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source date: CE 84-96 GODOT
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Imperator Caesar Domitianus Augustus Germanicus [...]

Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus [nominative case].

The column resembles a milestone; and its present location, which is almost certainly near its findspot, is suited to a stone marking the caput viae of either of two stretches of the coast road (Lepcis Magna - Oea and Lepcis Magna - Tubactis) or of the Eastern Jabal road (see also 930). If it is a milestone, it is the only known evidence of work on the Tripolitanian road system between the reigns of Tiberius and Caracalla (see Goodchild, Roman Roads, p. 7).