The Bridgeness slab: a Roman distance slab created about 142 CE that marks a portion of the Antonine Wall built by the Second Legion.
IMP CAES TITO
AELIO │ Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) Tito Aelio
HADRI ANTONINO │
Hadri(ano) Antonino
AVG PIO P P LEG ĪĪ
│ Aug(usto) Pio P(atri) P(atriae) Leg(io) ĪĪ
AVG PER M P ĪĪĪĪ
DCLII │ Aug(usta) Per M(ilia) P(assuum) ĪĪĪĪ DCLII
FEC │ Fec(it)
[i] Imperātōrī
Caesarī Titō Aelīō Hadriānō Antōninō Augustō
Piō [ii] Patrī ¦ Patriae [iii] Legiō II Augusta [iv] per
mīlia passuum IIII DCLII fēcit
[i] For the
Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Antoninus Augustus Pius [ii] Father ¦ of the
country / Fatherland [iii] the Second Augustan Legion completed [the
wall] [iv] over a distance of 4,652 paces.
D (500) + C (100) +
L (50) + II (2)
Notes:
[i] the entire reference
to the Emperors’ name is in the dative case since the wall was built for him.
[ii] a nice bit of
alliteration: patrī patriae │ for the father of the fatherland
