WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0934. Milestone. Mile VIII. Maximinus.

Description: Columnar milestone of limestone, partly buried (measurable: h: 1.04 x diam.: 0.47).
Text: No description.
Letters: 0.07; line 9, 0.12

Date: CE 237 (context)

Findspot: Eastern Jabal: Eastern Jabal Road: At the head of the Wadi Haj Ali .
Original location: Eastern Jabal Road
Last recorded location: Supporting the arcade of an Arab building in a small group of habitations (1947)

Interpretive

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[--- Dac-]
icus maximus pontes
uetustate dilabsos [et?]
iter longa iniuria corru-
ptum restituerunt et pro su-
5a infaticabili prouidenti-
a peruiam comeantibus redd-
( vac. ) iderunt ( vac. )
( vac. 1 line)
m(iliarium) VIII

Diplomatic

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[---...-]
ICUSMAXIMUSPONTES
UETUSTATEDILABSOS[..]
ITERLONGAINIURIACORRU
PTUMRESTITUERUNTETPROSU
5AINFATICABILIPROUIDENTI
APERUIAMCOMEANTIBUSREDD
      IDERUNT      
     vacat
MVIII

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] greatest victor in Dacia, restored the bridges, which had collapsed because of their age, and the road which was disrupted by long-standing damage, and rebuilt a way along it for travellers, by their untiring providence. Mile 8.

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 934, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 934; Goodchild, 1948, 10, p.13, whence EDH 059770.

Images

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