963. Milestone. Mile XXV.
- Description:
- Milestone. Mile XXV.
- Text:
- No description.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- Probably Caracalla A.D. 216 (context, style)
- Findspot:
- Upper Sofeggin Road: area of Zintan to Mizda: Seen by Corò, before 1934, 1 km. East of the wells at Oglet el-Geflrat, about 40 km. from Zintan by the direct route.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (before 1934)
- Bibliography:
- Corò. Atti del II Congresso di Studi Colonici, II:70; 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), 22, no. 31. 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.
(No text published. See commentary.)
(No text published. See commentary.)
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No text published. See commentary.
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Translation:
Commentary:
No text transcribed, but Corò, loc. cit., records 18 lines of imperial titles, probably of Caracalla. For the mile, Corò gives XXV´ or XXX´; the geographical relation of the findspot to other known mile-stations on this road shows that XXV´ is correct.
- Photographs:
- none.
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