357. Building inscription of aqueduct under Hadrian
- Description:
- Block (w: 2.58 x h: 0.95 x d: 0.28) of grey-brown limestone.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata (die, w: 2.75 x h: 0.68)
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: l. 1, (0.09; l. 2, 0.06; l. 3, 0.05; l. 4, 0.10; ll. 5-6, 0.07.
- Date:
- A.D. 120 (titulature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: In the wall of the cistern, South of the Hadrianic Baths.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VIII:11; H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae 5754; Romanelli, Rivista della Tripolitania (Rivista a cura dell'Ufficio di Colonizzazione del Governo della Tripolitania), 2 vols., Roma, 1924-5; a third vol., under the title Libya, published for the Ministero delle Colonie, was issued in 1927 I:223ff.; P. Romanelli, Leptis Magna (Africae Italiana: Monografie a cura del Ministero delle Colonie, 1), Roma, 1925, 141ff. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
eratore
</ex>
Caesare
diui
Traiani
<lb
n="2"
/>
Parthici
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilio
</ex>
diui
N
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
e
</supplied>
ruae
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ote
</ex>
T
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
raiano
</supplied>
<lb
n="3"
/>
Hadriano
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
usto
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ifice
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
imo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
unicia
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
estate
</ex>
<num
value="4"
>
II
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</num>
II
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ule
</ex>
<num
value="3"
>
III
</num>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uintus
</ex>
S
<unclear
reason=""
>
e
</unclear>
rui
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
l
</supplied>
ius
Candidus
sua
<lb
n="6"
/>
inpensa
aquam
quaesit
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
a
</supplied>
m
et
eleuatam
<lb
n="7"
/>
in
coloniam
perduxit
</ab>
Translation:
When emperor Caesar [Trajan] Hadrian Augustus, son of deified Trajan victor in Parthia, grandson of deified Nerva, chief priest, was holding tribunician power for the [fourth] time, consul for the third, Quintus Servilius Candidus brought fresh water into the colony at his own expense, having sought it out and raised it.
Commentary:
l. 3. trib. pot. IIII - 10 Dec. 119 - 9 Dec 120.
l. 3. cos. III - 1 Jan. 119.
l. 4. Q. Seruilius Candidus. Also in 275 , l. 5; 358 , l. 5; 359 , l. 3.
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