§125 Hadrian’s Aqueduct

Hadrian’s Aqueduct

(0125) Text: Imp(eratore) Caes(are) | Tr(aiano) Had(riano) Aug(usto) | vexil(latio) leg(ionis) VI Ferr(atae)

Translation: Under the emperor Traianus Hadrianus Augustus a detachment of legio VI Ferrata built this part of the aqueduct.

Provenience: Beth Hanania, near Caesarea Maritima, Palestine 117-138 CE

Bibliography: AE 1928.137; ICaes.Mar. 49; CIIP 2.1204*; Leah Di Segni, “The Water Supply of Roman and Byzantine Palestine in Literary and Epigraphical Sources,” in The Aqueducts of Israel, ed. David Amit, Joseph Patrich and Yizhar Hirschfeld, JRASup 46 (Portsmouth: JRA, 2002), Caesarea no. 2; Baruch Lifshitz, “Sur la date du transfer de la legio VI Ferrata en Palestine,” Latomus 19 (1960): no. 3.