Military building inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Probably third to fourth centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 2.a, pp. 39-40 and pl. XXIIIc; whence [...] 1969/70.639, whence [...] 012430; see also [...], 1.

Pedatura uexillationis legionis III Augustae curante Aurelio Muciano ducenario

Translation

The infantry battalion of the third Augusta Legion made this; the overseer was Aurelius Mucianus duc(enarius).

Commentary

Line 1: Pedatura: presumably involved in the construction of military installations. The term is used of the detachments responsible for work on Hadrian's Wall: RIB 1944, 1945, and 2022 and 2053, both dated to 369.

Line 2: For a soldier from this legion see also P.67.

line 3: The name indicates Thracian origin; it is too common to allow of identification.