Description:
Column of grey limestone
(diam. 0.51
1.73), damaged at the top.
Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters: Capitals: line 1, 0.086; line 2, 3, 0.07.
Date: CE 84-96 GODOT (reign, titulature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna:
Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lying among debris immediately west of the Severan Arch (1955).
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
Emperor Caesar Domitian Augustus Germanicus (nominative case).
Commentary
The column resembles a milestone; and its present location, which is almost certainly near its findspot, is suited to a stone marking the caput viae of either of two stretches of the coast road (Lepcis Magna - Oea and Lepcis Magna - Tubactis) or of the Eastern Jabal road (see also 930). If it is a milestone, it is the only known evidence of work on the Tripolitanian road system between the reigns of Tiberius and Caracalla (see Goodchild, Roman Roads, p. 7).
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1955, S.3, whence IRT, 2009, 975, whence EDH 059813
Images
None available (2021).