Description: Upper part of a
columnar milestone: h:
0.75
Text: Inscribed on the shaft
Letters: 0.04.
Date: CE 237: GODOT (titulature)
Findspot:
Wādī Sawfajjīn: area of Zintan to Mizda:
Recorded in the Sceghega area with 966 and subsequently moved to the Residency at Garian, where it was seen by Goodchild and erroneously attributed to the Central
Road.
Original location: Findspot: Upper Sofeggin Road
Last recorded location:
Tripoli Castle
Interpretive
[Imp(erator)] Caes(ar) C(aius) [Iul(ius)]
[Uer]us Maxi[minus]
Pius Felix Au[g](ustus) [Ger-]
manicus ma[ximus]
5Sarmaticus m[ax](imus) [Da-]
cicus max(imus) pont(ifex)
max(imus) tribunia[e potes-]
tatis III imp(erator) V et
[C(aius)] Iulius Uerus [Maxi-]
10[mus] nobilissimus [Caes(ar)]
princeps iuuen[tutis]
Germanicus ma[ximus]
Sarmaticus max(imus) D[a-]
[cicus] max(imus) pont[es] ue[tus-]
15[tate]
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Diplomatic
[...]CAESC[...]
[...]USMAXI[.....]
PIUSFELIXAU[....-]
MANICUSMA[.....]
5SARMATICUSM[....-]
CICUSMAXPONT
MAXTRIBUNIA[......-]
TATISIIIIMPVET
[.]IULIUSUERUS[....-]
10[...]NOBILISSIMUS[....]
PRINCEPSIUUEN[.....]
GERMANICUSMA[.....]
SARMATICUSMAXD[.-]
[.....]MAXPONT[..]UE[...-]
15[....]
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English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Emperor Caesar Caius Julius Verus Maximinus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, greatest victor in Germany, greatest victor in Sarmatia,
greatest victor in Dacia, holding tribunician power for the third time, acclaimed victor five times, chief priest, and Caius
Julius Verus Maximus, most noble Caesar, chief of the Youth, greatest victor in Germany, greatest victor in Sarmatia, greatest
victor in Dacia, [restored] the bridges, [which had collapsed because of] their age, [ . . .
Bibliography: Goodchild, 1948, 15, page 15, whence Bartoccini, 1948, 151, EDH 059805; IRT, 1952, 967, without transcription, whence IRT, 2009, 967
Images
None available (2021).
