it is good to be the last one in the world to bed each night now at bp &
to turn off the light & the heater with me but in the darkness of the
madrugada i actually missed my latin dictionary which in daylight now tells
me what you latinos already knew namely that a milliarium is an original
roman milestone
& our recent bp discussions of road milestone zero in the various modern
countries do indeed all lead back to rome & the milliarium aureum or
original golden milestone erected by augustus in the forum
so it is from this central reference point that your milliarium & all the
others were measured in miles or thousands of roman doublestep paces called
milia passuum & if only 1k of them then mille passus from which both the
length & etymology of our various modern miles derive
so marcel we can be pretty sure your oldest working boundary rock candidate
at llivia has at least been a working demarcator since at least roman times

so my question here becomes when did this rock begin its service as an
international boundary rock
& that can probably be answered in the treaty texts
so in sum first i do think extreme congrats are in order here in any case
& second can anyone complete the research gap for authenticating either
this rock or one of those otherwise oldest known rocks we found along the
denl line earlier as the oldest known international boundary rock in the
world
m