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OLBA, sa.30, ss.327-346, 2022 (AHCI)
This article contains the re-evaluation of three inscribed milestones which are documented
using digital imaging methods in the Fethiye Archaeology Museum (2) and Dont (1) by the
permission of the Fethiye Archaeology Museum, as part of the project titled “lluminating the Land
of Light” coordinated by the Fethiye Museum and Liverpool University Çaltılar Archaeology
Project. All milestones discussed here come from the region between Oinoanda and Balboura,
both cities of the Kabalia region. The first milestone was found in Dont and contains two
noncontemporary inscriptions. The original inscription belongs to the time of Septimius Severus
and Caracalla and has been scraped off except for the last 4-5 letters. The other inscription at
the bottom was inscribed during the time of Diocletian and Maximianus with Constantius and
Galerius. While the aforementioned tetrarchic inscription was scraped, the Severan period text
was erased. For this reason, it is not possible to read the deleted part of the first inscription by
direct observation. Although the Severan inscription was first seen and noted by Rudolf Heberdey,
Ernst Kalinka and Christian Naour, it was first published in 1981 by David French, who stated
in his publication that "the stone is extremely difficult to read because the second inscription
destroyed most of the first one". D. French revised and republished the same inscription in 1986.
The tetrarchic inscription, on the other hand, was not published until 2014, although its existence is
known. D. French revised the first inscription for the third time in this publication. The inscriptions
on all three milestones are eroded due to natural conditions and are difficult to read by traditional
methods. This situation has caused incomplete/erroneous transcriptions in the previous studies.
Oinoanda) 3 (miles). Helvius Marianus. (From procurator
No. 3: These roads were restored through the agency of Helvius Marianus. (From Oinoanda) 6 (miles). procurator
restored through the agency of and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar, have the roads tribunicas potestas, censor,
Augustus Pius, and the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus tribunicas potestas, censor,
the fatherland,
No. 2: Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius, Pertinax, Augustus, Parthicus, father of
savior of the world.
Maximianus, the pious Aug(usti), and Constantius and Maximianus, the excellent Caesares, the
No. 1-B: (honored) The Imperatores Caesares C. Val(erius) Diocletianus and M. Val(erius) Helvius Marianus. * (Miles). procurator
have restored the roads through the agency of and Publius Septimius, Geta Caesar tribunicas potestas, censor,
Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius, and the emperor Caesar Marcus tribunicas potestas, censor,
Adiabenicus, father of the fatherland,
No. 1-A: Emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Seuerus Pius Pertinax, Augustus, Parthicus,
The translations of the inscriptions are as follows:
locations of the milestones are presented.
re-evaluation of the inscriptions, a commentary on the road connections of the region and probable
the milestones were also included and the new readings were presented comparatively. After the
the RTI and SfM photogrammetry methods. In this article, the previous published editions of
Helvius Marianus. For this reason, all three milestones were documented and re-evaluated using procurator
names of the ruling emperors Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta and also the
the scope of the Stadiasmus Patarensis project. The inscription of these two milestones cover the
to the scientific community by Sencer Şahin and Mustafa Adak in the publication prepared within
exhibited in the garden of the Fethiye Archaeological Museum. Both inscriptions were introducedThe other two milestones were found at the Su Kaynağı in the village of Zurban and are now