Re-Evaluation of Three Milestones from Lycia with Digital Epigraphy Studies

Abstract

The other two milestones were found at the Su Kaynağı in the village of Zurban and are now exhibited in the garden of the Fethiye Archaeological Museum. Both inscriptions were introduced to the scientific community by Sencer Şahin and Mustafa Adak in the publication prepared within the scope of the Stadiasmus Patarensis project. The inscription of these two milestones cover the names of the ruling emperors Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta and also the procurator Helvius Marianus. For this reason, all three milestones were documented and re-evaluated using the RTI and SfM photogrammetry methods. In this article, the previous published editions of the milestones were also included and the new readings were presented comparatively. After the re-evaluation of the inscriptions, a commentary on the road connections of the region and probable locations of the milestones are presented. The translations of the inscriptions are as follows: No. 1-A: Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Seuerus Pius Pertinax, Augustus, Parthicus, Adiabenicus, father of the fatherland, tribunicas potestas, censor, and the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, tribunicas potestas, censor, and Publius Septimius, Geta Caesar have restored the roads through the agency of procurator Helvius Marianus. * (Miles). No. 1-B: (honored) The Imperatores Caesares C. Val(erius) Diocletianus and M. Val(erius) Maximianus, the pious Aug(usti), and Constantius and Maximianus, the excellent Caesares, the savior of the world. No. 2: Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius, Pertinax, Augustus, Parthicus, father of the fatherland, tribunicas potestas, censor, and the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, tribunicas potestas, censor, and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar, have the roads restored through the agency of procurator Helvius Marianus. (From Oinoanda) 6 (miles). No. 3: These roads were restored through the agency of procurator Helvius Marianus. (From Oinoanda) 3 (miles)