§311 Milestone from Judaea

(0311) Text: Imp(erator) Caesar Divi | Trai(a)ni Parthici | fil(ius) divi Nervae nepos | Hadrianus Aug(ustus) pontif(ex) | max[i]m(us) trib(unicia) potestas | IIII co(n)s(ul) III fecit | V | ἀπὸ Δ[ι]ο[κ]αισαρί | ας μίλια | ια᾿

Provenience: 5 miles from Legio [Legio-Diocaesarea/Sepphoris road] 130 or 135 CE

Bibliography: Baruch Lifshitz, “Sur la date du transfer de la legio VI Ferrata en Palestine,” Latomus 19 (1960): 110-111; Benjamin Isaac and Israel Roll, “Judaea in the Early Years of Hadrian’s Reign,” Latomus 38 (1979): 56.