940. Milestone. Mile LVII. Caracalla.
- Description:
- Milestone. Mile LVII´.
- Text:
- No description.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- A.D. 216 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Central Road to the Fezzan: Oea-Mizda area, 85.5km from Tripoli. Found at Cat Tobbi, 2.5 km. North of Garian.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Built into the road revetment approximately in its original position.
- Bibliography:
- L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1915:93; R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, 651; Aurigemma, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927, II:137 ff., fig. 4; 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), 15, no. 14. 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.
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Translation:
Commentary:
For text, see type given under 941.
The mile number was read by Aurigemma and Goodchild; previous editors gave LVI.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A. 509)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 364)
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