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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1117. Milestone: Caracalla; ?mile 41

Description: Upper fragment of a columnar milestone of limestone h: 0.58
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Careful lettering: line 1, 0.08; lines 2 ff. 0.06-0.065

Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Jabal Tarhunah: Hosc el-Mreied in 1968
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Lepcis Museum

Interpretive

Imp(eratori?) ((stop)) Caesar(i?) diuị
[S]ẹptimi Seueri P̣ii Araḅị-
[c]i Adiabenici [Par]ṭḥ[ici]
[m]aximi Ḅṛ[itannici]
5[m]ạxim[i]
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Diplomatic

IMP CAESARDIU.
[.].PTIMISEUERI.IIARA..
[.]IADIABENICI[...]..[...]
[.]AXIMI..[........]
5[.].XIM[.]
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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, [ . . .

Bibliography: Di Vita-Évrard, 1979 2, 72-77, whence AE 1979.647, EDH 008542

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