Hadrian’s Aqueduct
(0127) Text: Imp(erator) Caesar | Traianus | Hadrianus | Aug(ustus) fecit | per vexillatione(m) | leg(ionis) X Fr(e)te(nsis)
Translation: Under the emperor Traianus Hadrianus Augustus had this part of the aqueduct built by a detachment of legio X Fretensis.
Provenience: three miles north of Caesarea Maritima, Palestine 117-138 CE
Bibliography: AE 1928.136; ICaes.Mar. 51; CIIP 2.1206*; 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. 1; Baruch Lifshitz, “Sur la date du transfer de la legio VI Ferrata en Palestine,” Latomus 19 (1960): no. 4.