957. Milestone. ? Mile CX. Caracalla.
- Description:
- Milestone. ? Mile C[X].
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- No description.
- Date:
- A.D. 216 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Central Road to the Fezzan, Oea-Mizda area: 1671km from Tripoli. Found about 7 km. North of Mizda, at a point where the modern road is flanked on the East by a small hillock (Chormet Gherian)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now in the garden of the Residency at Mizda. One base is still in situ on the West verge of the modern road.
- Bibliography:
- R. Cagnat et A. Merlin, Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc), Paris, 1923, 651; De Mathuisieulx, Nouvelles Archives des Missions scientifiques XIII:89 ft.; 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), 19, no. 25; R. Bartoccini, 'Review: Roman Roads ' (v. infra) in Epigraphica X (1948) 150-7, 154. 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 941.
- Photographs:
- none.
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