Mile Pillar of Aduatuca

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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
[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

  1. cf. Christian Huppert: Road maps and directions in antiquity. Project website of the University of Vienna (accessed on March 13, 2016).
  2. CIL 13,9158