942. Milestone. Mile LXXXII. Gordian III.

Description:
Milestone. Mile LXXXII´. Flattened column of rectangular section (w: 0.37 x h: 0.82 x d: 0.28.) 
Text:
No description. 
Letters:
No description. 
Date:
238-244 A.D. (reign)  
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: Chormet el-Hantescia Pass, 125km from Tripoli. Found about 50 m. South of 941, q.v.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
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), 29, no. 41. 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) Caisar M(arcus)
Antonius
Gordianus
Pius Felix
5Augustus
mil(iarium) n(umero) LXXXII
IMPCAISARM
ANTONIVS
GORDIANVS
PIVSFELIX
5AVGVSTVS
MILNLXXXII
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Imp
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Caisar
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M
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<ex>
arcus
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</expan>
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Antonius
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Gordianus
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Pius
Felix
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Augustus
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<abbr>
mil
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<ex>
umero
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<num value="82" >
LXXXII
</num>
</ab>

1, Caisar: : sic.

Translation:

Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Augustus. Milestone eighty-two.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 358 Leica)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 358 Leica)

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