927. Milestone. Mile XVIII or XVIIII. Gallienus.
- Description:
- Milestone. Mile XVIII´ or XVIIII´. 1. Worn sandstone column (h: 1.20 x diam.: 0.35).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the shaft.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.05.
- Date:
- A.D. 264. (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna: Henscir ben-Gedian; Found re-used in a ruined Christian building, near Wadi Gherrim, a little North of the modern Tripoli-Homs road at Kilo. 90 (Corradini village)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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), 24, no. 38, and 29, n. 1; R. Bartoccini, 'Review: Roman Roads ' (v. infra) in Epigraphica X (1948) 150-7, 155. 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(eratore)
Caes(are)
P(ublio) Licinio] Egnatio
Galienio Pio Felice (sic)
[A]ug(usto) Germanico [maximo]
[Dacic]o maxim(o) Pe[rsico maximo]
5 [pontifice maxi]ma tribunic«ic» i(a)e (sic)
potestatis XII imp(eratore) co(n)s(ule) V
p(atre) p(atriae) proco(n)s(ule) et
[Saloni]n[ae] coniugis Galeno (sic)
m(iliarium) XVIIII
Galienio Pio Felice (sic)
[A]ug(usto) Germanico [maximo]
[Dacic]o maxim(o) Pe[rsico maximo]
5 [pontifice maxi]ma tribunic«ic» i(a)e (sic)
potestatis XII imp(eratore) co(n)s(ule) V
p(atre) p(atriae) proco(n)s(ule) et
[Saloni]n[ae] coniugis Galeno (sic)
m(iliarium) XVIIII
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratore
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Caes
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
are
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ublio
</ex>
Licinio
</supplied>
Egnatio
<lb
n="2"
/>
Galienio
Pio
Felice
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
A
</supplied>
ug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
Germanico
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maximo
</supplied>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Dacic
</supplied>
o
<expan>
<abbr>
maxim
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
o
</ex>
Pe
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
rsico
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maximo
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
pontifice
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
maxi
</supplied>
ma
<expan>
<abbr>
tribunic
</abbr>
<add
place="overstrike"
>
ic
</add>
<abbr>
i
</abbr>
<ex>
a
</ex>
<abbr>
</expan>
e
</abbr>
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="6"
/>
potestatis
<num
value="12"
>
XII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratore
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ule
</ex>
<num
value="5"
>
V
</num>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atre
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
atriae
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ule
</ex>
et
<lb
n="8"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Saloni
</supplied>
n
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ae
</supplied>
coniugis
Galeno
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
iliarium
</ex>
<num
value="19"
>
XVIIII
</num>
8, Bartoccini reads <<Gallenio>>.
9, Goodchild reads <<XVIII>> or possibly <<XVIIII>>; Bartoccini reads <<XVIIII>> certainly.
Translation:
[When emperor Caesar Publius Licinius] Egnatius Gallienus Pius, Felix Augustus, [greatest] victor in Germany, greatest victor in [Dacia], greatest victor in Persia, [chief priest], held tribunician power for the twelfth time, acclaimed victor, consul five times, father of the country, proconsul, and to [Salonina], wife of Gal<li>enus. Milestone nineteen.
Commentary:
No comment.
- Photographs:
- none.
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