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956. Milestone. ? Mile CVIII. Gallienus.

Description:: Milestone. Mileage number not inscribed, ? mile CVIII´. Flattened column of rectangular section (w: 0.30 x h: 1.70 x d: 0.20, tapering to 0.270.20 at the summit.
Text:: Inscribed on the surviving face.
Letters:: 0.03.
Date:: A.D. 262 (titulature)
Findspot:: Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: 164km from Tripoli, about 150 m. West of the modern road and close to the foothills. There are two bases in situ. Found with 955.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Now at the Residency at Mizda.
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), 18, no. 24. 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)
P(ublio) Licinio
Egnatio
Gallienio
5inuicto
Pio Fel(ici) Aug(usto)
pont(ifici) max(imo)
P̣ar(thico) m[ax(imo)] Ger(manico)
t(ribunicia) p(otestate) X co(n)s(uli)
10 V p(atri) p(atriae) proc-
ons(uli)
mil(iarium)

IMPCAES
PLICINIO
EGNATIO
GALLIENIO
5INVICTO
PIOFELAVG
PONTMAX
·ARM[···]GER
TPXCOS
10VPPPROC
ONS
MIL

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4, Gallienio: : sic.

Translation:

To emperor Caesar Publius Licinius Egnatius Gallienus, unconquered, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, greatest victor in Parthia, victor in Germany, holding tribunician power for the tenth time, consul for the fifth, father of the country, proconsul. Milestone [?one hundred and eight].