926. Milestone. Mile V. Tacitus.

Description:
Milestone. Mile V´. Limestone column (circumference: 1.13 h: 1.18).  
Text:
Inscribed on the shaft. 
Letters:
0.06-0.07. 
Date:
A.D. 276. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Coast Road: Oea-Lepcis Magna: Gasr et-Tura, 3 km North North West of Ras el-Mergheb 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now in the mosque at the foot of Ras el-Mergheb. 
Bibliography:
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:7 ft.; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1926:137; 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), 10, no.2. 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(erator) Cae-
sar M(arcus) Clau-
dius Taci-
tus Pius
5Felix Aug(ustus)
pontifex
maximus
tribunici-
ae potesta-
10tae II co(n)s(ul) (sic)
m(iliarium) V
IMPCAE
SARMCLAV
DIVSTACI
TVSPIVS
5FELIXAVG
PONTIFEX
MAXIMVS
TRIBVNICI
AEPOTESTA
10TAEIICOS(sic)
MV
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
Cae
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
sar
<expan>
<abbr>
M
</abbr>
<ex>
arcus
</ex>
</expan>
Clau
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
dius
Taci
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
tus
Pius
<lb n="5" />
Felix
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
pontifex
<lb n="7" />
maximus
<lb n="8" />
tribunici
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
ae
potesta
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
tae
<num value="2" >
II
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ul
</ex>
</expan>
<note>
sic
</note>
<lb n="11" />
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
iliarium
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="5" >
V
</num>
</ab>

Translation:

Emperor Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus, Pius, Felix, Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the second time, consul. Milestone Five.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:
none.

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