953. Milestone. ? Mile C[[VI]]´. Aurelian.

Description:
Milestone. Mileage number not certainly legible, ? mile C[VI]´. Column of oval section (h: 1.80 x diam.: 0.30), broken in four pieces 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving face. 
Letters:
0.03-0.04. 
Date:
A.D. 271. (titulature) 
Findspot:
Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: 161km from Tripoli about 100 m. North of the crossing of the Wadi Lella Found with 952. 
Original Location:
Findspot 
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), 18, no. 21. 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-
s(ar) L(ucius) D(o)mit-
ius Aure-
lianus inu-
5ictus P(ius) F(elix) A
ug(ustus) ponti-
f(ex) max(imus) tri-
b(unicia) pot(estate) ỊỊ
mil(iarium)
10 C̣ [·· ? ··]
IMPCAE
SLDMIT
IVSAVRE
LIANVSINV
5ICTVSPFA
VGPONTI
FMAXTRI
BPOT··
MIL
10·[·· ? ··]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
erator
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Cae
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ar
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
L
</abbr>
<ex>
ucius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
D
</abbr>
<ex>
o
</ex>
<abbr>
mit
</abbr>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
ius
</expan>
Aure
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
lianus
inu
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
ictus
<expan>
<abbr>
P
</abbr>
<ex>
ius
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
F
</abbr>
<ex>
elix
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
A
</abbr>
<lb n="6" />
<abbr>
ug
</abbr>
<ex>
ustus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
ponti
</abbr>
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ex
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imus
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
tri
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
b
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<orig >
<unclear reason="" >
II
</unclear>
</orig>
<lb n="9" />
<expan>
<abbr>
mil
</abbr>
<ex>
iarium
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="10" />
<orig >
<unclear reason="damage" >
C
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
</ab>

Translation:

Emperor Caesar Lucius Domitius Aurelianus unconquered, Pius, Felix Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the second time. Milestone one hundred (perhaps more).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 356)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DTV 356)

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