Colonne itinéraire de Maël-Carhaix

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The route column of Maël-Carhaix is a Roman leugary pillar of the late 2nd or early 3rd century, installed in front of the South Transept of St Peter's Church in Maël-Carhaix (Côtes-d'Armor), France. The stone presented during its discovery in the nineteenth century a Latin inscription already very erased, and practically illegible today. With the Milestone of Kerscao, it is one of the inscriptions on which are based the assumptions localizing the ancient toponyms of Vorganium and Vorgium, mentioned respectively in the Geography of Ptolemy (II, 8, 5: "...

"...The north coast from the river called Sequana is occupied... Finally, until Cape Gobaion, by the Osismi whose capital is Vorganium) and in the Table of Puisinger (I, 2, o). These hesitant locations, as well as several other stations of the Viae Osismiorum (the Osismian Way), have been the subject of intense debate since the 18th century.