937. Milestone. Mile XXX. Gordian III.
- Description:
- Milestone. Mile XXX´. Column of brown limestone (h: 1.53 x diam.: 0.45) broken in two pieces.
- Text:
- ll. 1-4 and 9 painted, ll. 5-8 incised.
- Letters:
- Irregular lettering: 0.08
- Date:
- A.D. 239. (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Eastern Djebel Road: Wadi Dauun, in the Lepcis Magna-Tarhuna area, below the modern Marconi-Tarhuna road, 2 km. West of Gasr Dauun. Found with 936, q.v.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published 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 939b.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2012 Leica)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 2014 Leica)
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