Butler, Howard Crosby; Princeton University [Editor]: Syria: publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904 - 5 and 1909 (Div. 3, Sect. A ; 2) (1910)

Milestones found on Trajan’s road between Bosra and cAmman

XXI

b. On the reverse of the shaft. Height of inscription 60 cm. Length of 1. 2,
3 δ1/, cm. Height of letters 5T/3—8 cm.
Imjp. C. C. V[al.
Diocletifano
P. F. In(vi)c<C>to [Aug.
et Imp. C. [M. Vai.
Maxfimiano
P. F. In(vi)c[to Aug.
The abbrevation C. for Caesar occurs also in nos. VIII and XVII, and in Germer-
Durand, no. 9. The ligature in lines 3 and 6 is also found in Germer-Durand, no. 9.

Mile xvi from Bosra.

Three inscribed shafts, with bases attached, found on the edge of the road almost
due south of the group at the end of the fifteenth mile.

VI. Shaft let into a square base. Found lying at the extreme south of the
group. Height of shaft 1.98 m. Circumference at the middle 1.33 m. Square of the
base 75 cm.
a. 214 a.d. Length of 1. 3, 19^ cm. Height of letters in 1. 1, 9 cm.; in the
other lines, 5-7 cm. Height of the Latin numeral at the base io’/scm.; of the Greek
numeral, 2Ox/3 cm.

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Inscr. VI. Scale I : 20.

b. On the reverse of the shaft. Height of inscription about 80 cm. Length of
1. 2. 33 cm. Height of letters 4-50111. Height of the numeral 4^ cm. L. 1 is in
alignment with 1. 3 of a.