Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine Creator Michael Satlow Brown University Ashk 0003a

Ashkelon, 218 CE - 222 CE. Column. Milestone.

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Roughly cut at one end and broken at the other. It cannot be determined whether this milestone had a base. The upper end of the column seems to have been leveled intentionally

The text covers more than one half of the column's lenght

Line 1 is 8 cm high, while lines 2-8 range from 5 to 6 cm in height.

218 CE - 222 CE Coastal Plain Ashkelon Third Mile Estate

It was found 50 m to the northwest of the Byzantine estate buildings in a pile of debris that was removed by heavy mechanic equipment that disturbed the site prior to the excavation.

Taxonomies for IIP controlled values

 Initial Entry adding period attribute to date element, with Periodo value.

Imperatori Caesari divi Antonini maioris pii filio, divi Severi pii nepoti, Marco Aurelio Antonino Pio felici invicto Augusto tribuniciae potestatis vias et pontes restituit milia passuum III

To the Emperor Caesar, son of the divine Antoninus the Greater, Pius, grandson of the (divine) Severus, Pius, Marcus Aurelius [[Antoninus Pius]], fortunate, invincible, holder of the tribunician power. He restored the roads and bridges. Three miles.

Imperatori Caesari divi Antonini maioris pii filio, divi Severi pii nepoti, Marco Aurelio Antonino Pio felici invicto Augusto tribuniciae potestatis vias et pontes restituit milia passuum III

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