Milestone. Mile XLIII? Caracalla.
created: Previous publications and transcription, by Bartoccini.
source date: CE 216: GODOT
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[...], 966, without transcription, whence [...], 966; [...] 15 p.151-2, whence [...] 059804

Imperatori Caesari diui Septimi Seueri Pii Arabici Adiabenici Parthici maximi Brittanici maximi filio, diui Antonini Pii Germanici Sarmatici nepoti diui Antonini Pii pronepoti diui Hadria ni abnepoti diui Traiani Parthici et diui Nerue adnepoti Marco Aurelio Antonino Pio Felici Augusto Parthico maximo Brittanico maximo Germanico maximo pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate XIX imperatori III consuli IIII patri patriae proconsuli miliarium [...]XL[...]

To emperor Caesar, son of deified Septimius Severus, Pius, victor in Arabia, victor in Adiabene, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, grandson of deified Antoninus Pius , victor in Germany, victor in Sarmatia, great grandson of deified Antoninus Pius, great great grandson of deified Hadrian, great great great grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia and of deified Nerva, Marcus Aurellius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus, greatest victor in Parthia, greatest victor in Britannia, greatest victor in Germany, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the nineteenth time, acclaimed victor three times, consul four times, father of the country, proconsul. Milestone [ . . ]40[ . . .

The mileage number is recorded as [C]XL or [C]XLIII, but the geographical relation of the findspot to other known mile-stations on the Upper Sofeggin Road makes the initial C improbable.