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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1093. Milestone. Mile 43; Caracalla.

Description: Columnar milestone of white limestone h: 1.60
Text: Inscribed on the face, field w: 0.68 x h: 1.20
Letters: Rough and irregular: line 1, 0.07-0.08; lines 2-14, 0.045-0.05; line 15, 0.04; line 16, 0.105-0.12.

Date: 215-216 CE (titulature)

Findspot: Jabal Tarhunah: Bu el-Acbasc in 1968.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle

Interpretive

Imp(eratori) Ca[esari d]iụ[i Sep-]
timi Seueṛ[i Pii Arabi]ci Adiaḅenic̣i
Parthici maxiṃị Britanici ma-
ximi filio diui Ṃ(arci) ((stop)) [A]nṭọnini Pii
5Germanici ((stop)) Sarmaticị ((stop)) nepoti, diui
Antonini ((stop)) Pii ((stop)) pronepoti ((stop)) diui Had-
riani abnepoti, ((stop)) diui ((stop)) Traiani Pa-
rthici et diui Neru<a>e [a]dnepoti ((stop))
Ṃạṛc̣ọ ((stop)) Ạurel[io Anto]nino ((stop))
10P̣ịọ Felici Augụṣ(to) ((stop)) P̣arthic̣o ma-
x̣ịmo Britan<n>ico maximo
Germanico maximo ponti-
fici m<a>ximo tribunici<a>ẹ {po}
pọṭẹstatis ((stop)) XVIIIỊ[ Imp(eratori) III]
15 consulị IIII ((stop)) p̣(atri) p̣(atriae) ((stop)) p̣(roconsuli) ((stop))
( vac. ) XL((stop))III ( vac. )

Diplomatic

IMPCA[......]I.[....-]
TIMISEUE.[.........]CIADIA.ENI.I
PARTHICIMAXI..BRITANICIMA
XIMIFILIODIUI. • [.]N..NINIPII
5GERMANICI • SARMATIC. • NEPOTIDIUI
ANTONINI • PII • PRONEPOTI • DIUIHAD
RIANIABNEPOTI • DIUI • TRAIANIPA
RTHICIETDIUINERUE[.]DNEPOTI •
..... • .UREL[......]NINO •
10...FELICIAUG.. • .ARTHI.OMA
..MOBRITANICOMAXIMO
GERMANICOMAXIMOPONTI
FICIMXIMOTRIBUNICI.PO
P...STATIS • XVIII.[......]
15CONSUL.IIII • .. • . •
      XL • III      

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, father of the country, proconsul. (scil. Milestone) forty-three.

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 1979 1, pp. 69-72, whence AE 1979.646, EDH 008539

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (Kenrick, 2008)


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