Building inscription of aqueduct under Hadrian J. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
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Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
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Description of Monument
Block (2.580.950.28) of grey-brown limestone.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face within a moulded tabella ansata (die, 2.750.68)
Description of 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)
Locations
Lepcis Magna:
In the wall of the cistern, South of the Hadrianic Baths.
Unknown
Findspot
Bibliography
VIII:11;
5754;
Romanelli, I:223ff.;
, 141ff.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
ImperatoreCaesarediuiTraianiParthicifiliodiuiNeruaenepoteTraianoHadrianoAugustopontificemaximotribuniciapotestateIIIIconsuleIIIQuintusSeruiliusCandidussuainpensaaquamquaesitameteleuatamincoloniamperduxit
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.