WP 0005

IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0959. Milestone. Mile CXIV? Caracalla.

Description: Upper part of a columnar milestone of limestone: h: 0.80 x diam.: 0.35
Text: Inscribed on the shaft.
Letters: Line 1, 0.05, reamainder 0.03-0.04

Date: CE 216: GODOT (context)

Findspot: Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: Mizda el-Otia (the lower village); found reused in a tomb near the Sunni Zavia; found with 958.
Original location: Unknown: possibly from a mile-station, perhaps the terminal one, in the Wadi Sofeggin.
Last recorded location: Mizdah, residency (1947)

Interpretive

[I]mp(eratori) Caes(ari) di[ui]
[Se]ptimi Seu[eri]
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Diplomatic

[.]MPCAESDI[..]
[..]PTIMISEU[...]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To emperor Caesar, [son] of deified Septimius Severus, [ . . .

Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 959, wihtout transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 959; Goodchild, 1948, 27, page 19, whence EDH 059797

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