958. Milestone. ? mile CXIV.
- Description:
- Milestone. No mileage number surviving,? mile CXIV´.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Not recorded.
- Date:
- No date indication. The form of the column suggests Caracalla A.D. 216 (context)
- Findspot:
- Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: Found near the Sunni Zavia (of the Senussi) in Mizda el-Otia (the lower village) possibly from a mile-station, perhaps the terminal one, in the Wadi Sofeggin.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- 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), 19, no. 26. 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.
(The words )proconsuli m(iliarium) (alone survive).
(The words )PROCONSVLIM(alone survive)
<note>
The words
</note>
proconsuli
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iliarium
</ex>
<note>
alone survive
</note>
.
Translation:
To [·· ? ··] proconsul. Milestone [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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