930. Milestone. Caput Viae. Tiberius.

Description:
Milestone. Caput viae. Column (h: 1.33 x diam.: 0.47) of grey limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed within a moulded border, (die, 0.31 0.49), with two incised scrolls above. 
Letters:
No description. 
Date:
A.D. 14-17 (titulature, prosopography) 
Findspot:
Eastern Djebel Road: Lepcis Magna-Tarhuna area. Main Street; In situ at Lepcis, on the West side, immediately South West of the Arch of Septimius Severus.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Guidi, Africa Romana, (Istituto di Studi Romani), Milano, 1935, 238 ; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1936:157 ; Romanelli, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939, I:104 ft., fig. 10; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1940:69 ; 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), 12, no. 6; Ehrenberg and Jones, Documents illustrating the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, Oxford, 1949, no. 291. 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(eratoris) Ti(beri) Cae-
saris Aug(usti)
iussu
L(ucius) Aelius Lam-
5ia proco(n)s(ul) ab
oppido in medi-
terraneum di-
rexsit m(ilia) p(assuum) XLIV
IMPTICAE
SARISAVG
IVSSV
LAELIVSLAM
5IAPROCOSAB
OPPIDOINMEDI
TERRANEVMDI
REXSITMPXLIV
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratoris
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
beri
</ex>
</expan>
Cae
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
saris
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="3" />
iussu
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
Aelius
Lam
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
ia
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
ab
<lb n="6" />
oppido
in
medi
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
terraneum
di
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
rexsit
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
ilia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
assuum
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="44" >
XLIV
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

On the order of emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Lucius Aurelius Lamia, proconsul, built( a road) from the town southwards for forty-four miles.

Commentary:

l.4: L. Aelius Lamia: cos. 3, = PIR (l) A 200. Procos. Africae before 17-18.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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