Mile Pillar of Aduatuca
The mile column of Aduatuca is the fragment of a Roman mile , or more precisely Leugensteins from basalt , the Roman settlement in the former Aduatuca Tungrorum (today Tongeren ) was found in Belgium. Aduatuca Tungrorum was on the Roman road Via Belgica from Cologne to Reims . The stone, erected around 200 AD, had an octagonal cross-section. His fragment is exhibited in the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels .
Original text | distance | place |
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[Bonna] | XI | Bonn |
[Rigo] magus | VIIII | Remagen |
[Antu] nnacum | VIII | Then after |
[Conf] luentes | VIII | Koblenz |
[Bo] udobriga | VIII | Boppard |
[Vo] solvia | VIII | Oberwesel |
[B] ingium | VIII | Bingen |
[Mo] gontiac (um) | XII | Mainz |
[Bu] conica | VIIII | probably Nierstein and Oppenheim |
[Borb] etomag (us) or [Borb] itomag (us) |
XI | Worms |
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Christian Huppert: Road maps and directions in antiquity. Project website of the University of Vienna (accessed on March 13, 2016).
- ↑ CIL 13,9158