Description: Columnar milestone of limestone: h:
2.00 x diam.:
0.47).
Text: Inscribed on the shaft, which is damaged above.
Letters: Regular and clear, 0.04-0.06
Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)
Findspot:
Eastern Jabal:
Gasr Hammud, approx. 4 km. south west of the Monticelli of Lepcis,
built into an Arab house 30 metres from the Roman ruin; found in 1938.
Original location: Findspot: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
Interpretive
Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) diui
Septimi Seueri Pii
Arabic[i] Ad[ia]b[e-]
nici Pa[rthici ma-]
5ximi [Britanici m]axi-
mi filius diui Marci
Antonini Pii Germanici
Sarmatici nepos [diui] Antoni-
ni Pii pronepos diui Hadriani
10 abnepos diui Traiani Parthici
et diui Nerue adnepos M(arco) Au-
relio Antonino Pio Felici
Aug(usto) Parthico maximo Britan-
ico maximo Germanico
15maximo pontifici maximo
tribuniciae potestate XVIIII
imp(eratori) III co(n)s(uli) IIII p(atri) p(atriae) proco(n)s(uli)
miliarius II
Diplomatic
IMPCAESDIUI
SEPTIMISEUERIPII
ARABIC[.]AD[..]B[.-]
NICIPA[........-]
5XIMI[..........]AXI
MIFILIUSDIUIMARCI
ANTONINIPIIGERMANICI
SARMATICINEPOS[....]ANTONI
NIPIIPRONEPOSDIUIHADRIANI
10ABNEPOSDIUITRAIANIPARTHICI
ETDIUINERUEADNEPOSMAU
RELIOANTONINOPIOFELICI
AUGPARTHICOMAXIMOBRITAN
ICOMAXIMOGERMANICO
15MAXIMOPONTIFICIMAXIMO
TRIBUNICIAEPOTESTATEXVIIII
IMPIIICOSIIIIPPPROCOS
MILIARIUSII
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. Milestone two.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 931, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 931; Goodchild, 1948, 7, p.12, whence EDH 059767; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (S.M.S.)
