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IRT2021
Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

0970. Milestone. Caracalla: no mileage

Description: Fragment from a columnar milestone: w: 0.36 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.12
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: 0.028-0.035

Date: CE 216: GODOT (internal date)

Findspot: Tripoli: Found near Tripoli, precise spot not recorded, in 1916
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Tripoli Castle.

Interpretive

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[M(arco) Aurelio Antonino]
Pio Felici Ạụg̣(usto) P̣ạṛṭḥ[ico]
max(imo) Brittanico max(imo) [Ger-]
manico max(imo) pont[ifici]
max(imo) tribunicie pote[statis]
5[XV]ỊỊỊỊ ịṃp̣(eratori) [III]
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Diplomatic

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[................]
PIOFELICI........[...]
MAXBRITTANICOMAX[...-]
MANICOMAXPONT[.....]
MAXTRIBUNICIEPOTE[......]
5[..].......[...]
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English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . Marcus Aurelius 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, [ . . .

Bibliography: Aurigemma, 1925b. 8, pp. 143 ff; listed Goodchild, 1948, 36, page 24, without transcription, whence IRT, 1952, 970, IRT, 2009, 970, EDH 059808

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