941. Milestone. Mile LXXXII. Caracalla.

Description:
Milestone. Mile LXXXII´. Column of limestone (h: 2.20 x diam.: 0.40). 
Text:
Inscribed on the shaft. 
Letters:
l.1, 0.07; remainder, 0.04-0.05  
Date:
A.D. 216. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda: Chormet el-Hantescia Pass, 125km from Tripoli. Found about 50 m. north of 942, q.v.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
A little South of the Chormet el-Hantescia Pass, a few yards West of the modern road. There are two bases in situ.  
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), 16, no. 16. 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(eratori)
Caes(ari) diui Septi-
mi Seueri Pii Ara-
bici Adiabenici Pa-
5rthici maximi Bri-
tanici maximi filio
diui Antonini Pii
Germanici Sar-
matici nepoti di-
10ui Antonini Pii
pronepoti diui
Hadriani ab
nepoti diui
Traiani Parthici
15 et diui Neruae ad-
nepoti
M(arco) Aurellio Antonino
Pio Felici Aug(usto) Parthi-
co maximo Britani-
20co maximo Germani-
co maximo pontifici
maximo tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) XVIIII
imp(eratori) III co(n)s(uli) IIII p(atri) p(atriae) pro
co(n)s(uli)
25 mil(iarium) n(umero) LXXXII
IMP
CAESDIVISEPTI
MISEVERIPIIARA
BICIADIABENICIPA
5RTHICIMAXIMIBRI
TANICIMAXIMIFILIO
DIVIANTONINIPII
GERMANICISAR
MATICINEPOTIDI
10VIANTONINIPII
PRONEPOTIDIVI
HADRIANIAB
NEPOTIDIVI
TRAIANIPARTHICI
15ETDIVINERVAEAD
NEPOTI
MAVRELLIOANTONINO
PIOFELICIAVGPARTHI
COMAXIMOBRITANI
20COMAXIMOGERMANI
COMAXIMOPONTIFICI
MAXIMOTRPOTXVIIII
IMPIIICOSIIIIPPPRO
COS
25MILNLXXXII
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<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
ari
</ex>
</expan>
diui
Septi
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
mi
Seueri
Pii
Ara
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bici
Adiabenici
Pa
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
rthici
maximi
Bri
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
tanici
maximi
filio
<lb n="7" />
diui
Antonini
Pii
<lb n="8" />
Germanici
Sar
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
matici
nepoti
di
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
ui
Antonini
Pii
<lb n="11" />
pronepoti
diui
<lb n="12" />
Hadriani
ab
<lb n="13" />
nepoti
diui
<lb n="14" />
Traiani
Parthici
<lb n="15" />
et
diui
Neruae
ad
<lb n="16" type="worddiv" />
nepoti
<lb n="17" />
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arco
</ex>
</expan>
Aurellio
Antonino
<lb n="18" />
Pio
Felici
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
Parthi
<lb n="19" type="worddiv" />
co
maximo
Britani
<lb n="20" type="worddiv" />
co
maximo
Germani
<lb n="21" type="worddiv" />
co
maximo
pontifici
<lb n="22" />
maximo
<expan>
<abbr>
tr
</abbr>
<ex>
ibunicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="19" >
XVIIII
</num>
<lb n="23" />
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratori
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
IIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atri
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
atriae
</ex>
</expan>
pro
<lb n="24" />
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
uli
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="25" />
<expan>
<abbr>
mil
</abbr>
<ex>
iarium
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
n
</abbr>
<ex>
umero
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="82" >
LXXXII
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

To emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus, Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius , victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurellius 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, consul four times, father of the country, proconsul. Milestone eighty-two.

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