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III. A. 2. — Appendix
scriptions, however, were found on the section of the road between 'Amman and Petra,
and no inscriptions, giving an assured date for Trajan’s original construction of the
road, have heretofore been found along the portion of the road which leads from Bosra
to 'Amman.1 If the reading Trib. Pot. xviii on my copies of this inscription and
no. XIII be correct, it shows that this section of the road was not constructed until
114A.D., three years after the portion extending south from 'Amman. Furthermore,
the evidence for the later date is strengthened by the presence of the cognomen
Optimus in no. XIII and Germer-Durand, no. 28, for this cognomen, as far as is
known, does not appear on official inscriptions of Trajan until 114A.D.
II. Shaft. 194 a.d. Height 1.24 m. Circumference 1.67 m. Length of 1. 2,
21 cm. Height of letters in 1. 1, 12^ cm.; in 1. 2, 9 cm.; in the other lines, cm.
Height of the numeral at the base γ1/2 cm.
Germer-Durand, Bull. Arch, du Com. des Travaux Hist, et Scientifiques 1904, p. 11, no. 12.
Impferator Caesar
Luciu[s Septimius
Severu[s Pertinax Aug.
P.P. Tr[ib. Pot. II
I[mp. IIII Cos. II per P. Ael.
Leg. [Aug. pr. Pr.]
[XIIII]
I Δ
This copy differs considerably from that of Pere Germer-Durand, who deciphered
nothing in 1. 2, and reads in 1. 4, Pont. Max.] Trib. [Pot. II. However, in 1. 2 the
letters P.P. are plain, and the title Pontifex Maximus does not appear on the mile-
stones of Septimius Severus found along this road.2 Pere Germer-Durand’s description of
this stone is to be corrected, in so far as he writes that it has been broken into two frag·-
ments. This inscription is. unbroken, but Trajan’s milestone (no. I) is now in two fragments.
III. Fragment of Shaft. Height about 67 cm. Height of inscription 33 cm.
Length of 1. 2, 2 71/„ cm. Height of letters 5 cm.; of the numeral 9 cm.
Germer-Durand, Bull. Arch, du Com. des Travaux Hist, et Scientifiques, 1904, p. 12, no. 13.
Severifanum Maximum
Insci·. II. Scale I : 20.
Inscr. III. Scale 1 :2ο.
per
[num
Leg. A]ug. pr. Pr.
XIIII
1 C.I.L. hi 1415ο11, where Brunnow read Trib. P]ot. xv [Imp. vi proves only that iiia.d. is a terminus post quem.
2 It is restored on altogether insufficient evidence by Pere Germer-Durand in his nos. 21, 44, 46.
III. A. 2. — Appendix
scriptions, however, were found on the section of the road between 'Amman and Petra,
and no inscriptions, giving an assured date for Trajan’s original construction of the
road, have heretofore been found along the portion of the road which leads from Bosra
to 'Amman.1 If the reading Trib. Pot. xviii on my copies of this inscription and
no. XIII be correct, it shows that this section of the road was not constructed until
114A.D., three years after the portion extending south from 'Amman. Furthermore,
the evidence for the later date is strengthened by the presence of the cognomen
Optimus in no. XIII and Germer-Durand, no. 28, for this cognomen, as far as is
known, does not appear on official inscriptions of Trajan until 114A.D.
II. Shaft. 194 a.d. Height 1.24 m. Circumference 1.67 m. Length of 1. 2,
21 cm. Height of letters in 1. 1, 12^ cm.; in 1. 2, 9 cm.; in the other lines, cm.
Height of the numeral at the base γ1/2 cm.
Germer-Durand, Bull. Arch, du Com. des Travaux Hist, et Scientifiques 1904, p. 11, no. 12.
Impferator Caesar
Luciu[s Septimius
Severu[s Pertinax Aug.
P.P. Tr[ib. Pot. II
I[mp. IIII Cos. II per P. Ael.
Leg. [Aug. pr. Pr.]
[XIIII]
I Δ
This copy differs considerably from that of Pere Germer-Durand, who deciphered
nothing in 1. 2, and reads in 1. 4, Pont. Max.] Trib. [Pot. II. However, in 1. 2 the
letters P.P. are plain, and the title Pontifex Maximus does not appear on the mile-
stones of Septimius Severus found along this road.2 Pere Germer-Durand’s description of
this stone is to be corrected, in so far as he writes that it has been broken into two frag·-
ments. This inscription is. unbroken, but Trajan’s milestone (no. I) is now in two fragments.
III. Fragment of Shaft. Height about 67 cm. Height of inscription 33 cm.
Length of 1. 2, 2 71/„ cm. Height of letters 5 cm.; of the numeral 9 cm.
Germer-Durand, Bull. Arch, du Com. des Travaux Hist, et Scientifiques, 1904, p. 12, no. 13.
Severifanum Maximum
Insci·. II. Scale I : 20.
Inscr. III. Scale 1 :2ο.
per
[num
Leg. A]ug. pr. Pr.
XIIII
1 C.I.L. hi 1415ο11, where Brunnow read Trib. P]ot. xv [Imp. vi proves only that iiia.d. is a terminus post quem.
2 It is restored on altogether insufficient evidence by Pere Germer-Durand in his nos. 21, 44, 46.