950. Milestone. No mileage number surviving. Caracalla.
- Description:
- Milestone. No mileage number surviving.
- Text:
- No description.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- No date surviving. A.D. 216 (context)
- Findspot:
- Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: Recorded by Bartoccini as near the Wadi el-Alegh, in the area of Tesscia. Not seen.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- R. Bartoccini, 'Review: Roman Roads ' (v. infra) in Epigraphica X (1948) 150-7, 154. 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.)
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No text published. See commentary.
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Translation:
Commentary:
For text, see type given under 941. (Fragment only).
The modern road from Garian to Mizda does not pass Bir Tesseca, but the ancient road probably made a slight eastward deflection in order to meet the important wells at that place.
- Photographs:
- none.
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