Description:
Milestone. Mile XVIII´ or XVIIII´. 1. Worn sandstone column (h: 1.20 x diam.: 0.35). 
Text:
Inscribed on the shaft. 
Letters:
0.03-0.05. 
Date:
A.D. 264. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna: Henscir ben-Gedian; Found re-used in a ruined Christian building, near Wadi Gherrim, a little North of the modern Tripoli-Homs road at Kilo. 90 (Corradini village) 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.  
Bibliography:
R. G. Goodchild, The Roman Roads and Milestones of Tripolitania (Discoveries and Researches in 1947). Published by the Department of Antiquities, British Military Administration Tripolitania, 1948 (being vol. I of Reports and Monographs), 24, no. 38, and 29, n. 1; R. Bartoccini, 'Review: Roman Roads ' (v. infra) in Epigraphica X (1948) 150-7, 155. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Previous publications and transcription, by Goodchild. 
[Imp(eratore) Caes(are) P(ublio) Licinio] Egnatio
Galienio Pio Felice (sic)
[A]ug(usto) Germanico [maximo]
[Dacic]o maxim(o) Pe[rsico maximo]
5 [pontifice maxi]ma tribunic«ic» i(a)e (sic)
potestatis XII imp(eratore) co(n)s(ule) V
p(atre) p(atriae) proco(n)s(ule) et
[Saloni]n[ae] coniugis Galeno (sic)
m(iliarium) XVIIII
[····]EGNATIO
GALIENIOPIOFELICE(sic)
[··]VGGERMANICO[·······]
[······]OMAXIMPE[·············]
5[···············]MATRIBVNIC«IC»IE(sic)
POTESTATISXIIIMPCOSV
PPPROCOSET
[·······]N[···]CONIVGISGALENO(sic)
MXVIIII
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
are
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ublio
</ex>
</expan>
Licinio
</supplied>
Egnatio
<lb n="2" />
Galienio
Pio
Felice
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
A
</supplied>
ug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Germanico
<supplied reason="lost" >
maximo
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Dacic
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
maxim
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
</expan>
Pe
<supplied reason="lost" >
rsico
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
maximo
</supplied>
<lb n="5" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
pontifice
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
maxi
</supplied>
ma
<expan>
<abbr>
tribunic
</abbr>
<add place="overstrike" >
ic
</add>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="6" />
potestatis
<num value="12" >
XII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ule
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atre
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ule
</ex>
</expan>
et
<lb n="8" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Saloni
</supplied>
n
<supplied reason="lost" >
ae
</supplied>
coniugis
Galeno
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
iliarium
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="19" >
XVIIII
</num>
</ab>

8, Bartoccini reads <<Gallenio>>.

9, Goodchild reads <<XVIII>> or possibly <<XVIIII>>; Bartoccini reads <<XVIIII>> certainly.

Translation:

[When emperor Caesar Publius Licinius] Egnatius Gallienus Pius, Felix Augustus, [greatest] victor in Germany, greatest victor in [Dacia], greatest victor in Persia, [chief priest], held tribunician power for the twelfth time, acclaimed victor, consul five times, father of the country, proconsul, and to [Salonina], wife of Gal<li>enus. Milestone nineteen.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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