Building inscription for the Aqua Augusta
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Augustan - first century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

Arch.Anz. 1938, 731, (giving Latin text only), whence [...] 1939.119, cited by [...], 1954.278; [...], 402; [...], 170, fig 132 (from T. XVI 34), whence [...], 1964.573; [...] 214-215; fig. 204; [...], 272-273, whence [...] 1981.858, whence [...] 004213; discussed [...], 370; mentioned [...], 218.

Caius Clodius Caii filius Vestalis pro consul aquam Augustam restituit Οὐεστάλις ἀνθύπατος ὕδωρ Σεβαστὸν ἀποκατέστησεν

Translation

[Latin] C(aius) Clodius Vestalis, son of C(aius), proconsul, restored the Water of Augustus.

[Greek]Vestalis, proconsul, restored the Water of Augustus.

Commentary

C. Vestalis: PIR2, C 1192, also in C.113 (where see discussion), C.115, C.116.

For the expression 'water of Augustus', for a construction by an Augustus, Robert compares 'water of Trajan', Τραιανοῦ ὕδατος, describing the aqueduct built by Trajan at Smyrna, ISmyrna 681.a (at PHI 254944), and the Σεβαστὸν ὑδραγωγῖον, 'Augustan water system' dedicated to Domitian at Anazarbos, IK Anazarbos 20 (at PHI 3115904)

The precise character of the waterways here - perhaps the systematisation of a spring - is not clear.