930. Milestone. Caput Viae. Tiberius.
- Description:
- Milestone. Caput viae. Column (h: 1.33 x diam.: 0.47) of grey limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed within a moulded border, (die, 0.31 0.49), with two incised scrolls above.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- A.D. 14-17 (titulature, prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel Road: Lepcis Magna-Tarhuna area. Main Street; In situ at Lepcis, on the West side, immediately South West of the Arch of Septimius Severus.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Guidi, Africa Romana, (Istituto di Studi Romani), Milano, 1935, 238 ; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1936:157 ; Romanelli, Epigraphica (Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia), Milano, vol. I, 1939, I:104 ft., fig. 10; L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1940:69 ; 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), 12, no. 6; Ehrenberg and Jones, Documents illustrating the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, Oxford, 1949, no. 291. 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.
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratoris
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
Ti
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
beri
</ex>
Cae
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
saris
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usti
</ex>
<lb
n="3"
/>
iussu
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ucius
</ex>
Aelius
Lam
<lb
n="5"
type="worddiv"
/>
ia
<expan>
<abbr>
proco
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ul
</ex>
ab
<lb
n="6"
/>
oppido
in
medi
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
terraneum
di
<lb
n="8"
type="worddiv"
/>
rexsit
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
p
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
assuum
</ex>
<num
value="44"
>
XLIV
</num>
Translation:
On the order of emperor Tiberius Caesar Augustus, Lucius Aurelius Lamia, proconsul, built( a road) from the town southwards for forty-four miles.
Commentary:
l.4: L. Aelius Lamia: cos. 3, = PIR (l) A 200. Procos. Africae before 17-18.
Photographs:
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