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) 
Imp(eratore) Caesare diui Traiani
Parthici f(ilio) diui N[e]ruae nep(ote) T[raiano]
Hadriano Aug(usto) pont(ifice) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) II[II] co(n)s(ule) III
5 Q(uintus) Sẹrui[l]ius Candidus sua
inpensa aquam quaesit[a]m et eleuatam
in coloniam perduxit
IMPCAESAREDIVITRAIANI
PARTHICIFDIVIN[··]RVAENEPT[·······]
HADRIANOAVGPONTMAXTRIBPOTII[···]COSIII
5QS·RVI[··]IVSCANDIDVSSVA
INPENSAAQVAMQVAESIT[··]METELEVATAM
INCOLONIAMPERDVXIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Imp
</abbr>
<ex>
eratore
</ex>
</expan>
Caesare
diui
Traiani
<lb n="2" />
Parthici
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
ilio
</ex>
</expan>
diui
N
<supplied reason="lost" >
e
</supplied>
ruae
<expan>
<abbr>
nep
</abbr>
<ex>
ote
</ex>
</expan>
T
<supplied reason="lost" >
raiano
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
Hadriano
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usto
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pont
</abbr>
<ex>
ifice
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
max
</abbr>
<ex>
imo
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
trib
</abbr>
<ex>
unicia
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
pot
</abbr>
<ex>
estate
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="4" >
II
<supplied reason="lost" >
II
</supplied>
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
co
</abbr>
<ex>
n
</ex>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
ule
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="3" >
III
</num>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Q
</abbr>
<ex>
uintus
</ex>
</expan>
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.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 246 Lastre)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 246 Lastre)

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