Fragmentary ?building inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First-second century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], from Norton, 75; [...], 508 (32), and pl. CI, fig. 88; discussed [...], 73.

[...] aedificandas et [...] [...] et ualuas et hydragogias [...]

Apparatus

[^a1: at 1: et | e[t]

[^a2: at 2: hydr[agogium [So Oliverio, and Knudsen in Kraeling.]]

Translations

(fece) edificare e - e le porte (le chiuse ?) e l'acquedotto -

. . . ] the building of [ . . . ] and double water-gates and conduit[s . . .

Commentary

Clearly recording construction of an aqueduct and associated installations; for a full description of the known arrangements for water-supply and water-storage at Ptolemais, see Knudsen in Kraeling, 68 f., but he is wrong to argue that the use of Latin in this text implies a late date for it.