Fragmentary account of contributions to an aqueduct
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century BCE
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[...] [...]III B[...] [...]eis Cnae Pompei- Magn-[...] [...] assignauit [...] [...]s dieis aquae [...] [...]m denarii ↀI𐆕 et I[...] [...]s aquae in e[...] [...] quod est denarii ↀD̶ [...] [...] est [...] [...]

. . . ] Gnaeus Pompeius [Magnus . . . ] ?assigned[ . . . ] by the gods of water[ . . . ] 4000 denarii and [ . . . ] the waters [ . . . ] which is 1500(+) denarii [ . . . ] is[ . . .

Commentary

Line 2: presumably Pompey, and if so the most probable occasion for his intervention in Libya is in connection with the Pirate War of 67 BCE; but a date during the civil war of 49 BCE is also possible. See further Reynolds, art.cit.

Line 3 can only be part of signare (to coin), designare (to designate) or assignare (to assign), the last being the most probable.

Line 7: 1500 denarii but some figures may be lost.

It is clear that the text concerned an aqueduct or irrigation work to which, probably, contributions were being made; the first contributors, and the only ones whose names survive, are the gods mentioned in line 4. Pompey had perhaps assigned responsibility for the payment to be made.