Description:
Columnar milestone of
limestone
h:
2.196
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.01 - 0.04, line 15, 0.07.
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot: Homs: found during demolition of a Turkish building adjoining the main mosque, in
1966
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari),
diui Sepṭịṃị Ṣẹụẹṛị Pii Arabici Adiabenici Par-
[thi]ci maximi Brittanici
ṃ[a]x̣imi filio diui Antoniṇị
5Pii Germanici Sarmatici ne-
poti diui Antonini Pii prone-
poti diui Hadriani abnepoti-
diui Traiani Parthici ẹṭ ḍịui
Neruae adnepot[i]
10 Marco Au[relli]ọ Antoni[n]o Pio Feḷịc̣ị
Aug(usto) P̣ạṛṭḥico maxịṃo Ḅṛittanico
maximo Germanic̣o ṃaximo pon-
tifici maximo triḅuniciae po-
ṭẹṣṭaṭịṣ X̣VIIII, imp(eratori) III
15( vac. ) I ( vac. )
Diplomatic
IMPCAES
DIUISEP..........PIIARABICIADIABENICIPAR
[...]CIMAXIMIBRITTANICI
.[.].IMIFILIODIUIANTONI..
5PIIGERMANICISARMATICINE
POTIDIUIANTONINIPIIPRONE
POTIDIUIHADRIANIABNEPOTI
DIUITRAIANIPARTHICI....UI
NERUAEADNEPOT[.]
10MARCOAU[.....].ANTONI[.]OPIOFE....
AUG.....ICOMAX..O..ITTANICO
MAXIMOGERMANI.O.AXIMOPON
TIFICIMAXIMOTRI.UNICIAEPO
....A....VIIIIIMPIII
15 I
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
To emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus, Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia,
greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of
deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia
and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurellius 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. (i.e. Milestone) One.
Bibliography: Mentioned Bakir, 1967 249, and Di Vita-Évrard, 1979 71, note 10; published Gasperini, 1988 159-164, whence AE 1988.1101, EDH 009599
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