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Den Haag - Wateringse Veld. Modern reconstruction of four Roman milestones, discovered in 1997. The originals are at the Museon. The milestones indicate the distance to the next Roman city, Forum Hadriani (modern Voorburg). They can be dated to the reigns of the emperors Antoninus Pius (138-161; the column dates to 151), Caracalla (211-217), Gordian III (238-244), and Decius (249-251).

Ancient milestone from Den Haag. Photo Jona Lendering.

Milestone of Antoninus Pius.

[IMP(eratori) CAES(ari) D] IVI
HADR(iani) FIL(io) DIVI TRA(ani)
PARTHIC(i) NEPOTI
DIVI NERVAE PRO
NEPOTI T(ito) AELI(o)
ANTONINO AVG(ust)O
PONT(ifici) M[AX](imo) TRIB(unicia) [PO]TES(tate)
PII CO(n)SULI IIII
A M(unicipio) A(elio) C(anefatium) MP IIII

To the emperor Caesar, the divine
Hadrian's son, the divine Traian
Parthicus' grandson,
the divine Nerva's great-
grandson, Titus Aelius
Antoninus Augustus,
high priest, with tribunicial powers,
the pious, for the fourth time consul.
To the Aelian town of the Cananafates,
four miles

Replica of the milestone of Decius.

IMP(eratori) CAES(ari) C M(essio)
QVINTO TRA(iano)
DECIO [PI]O FELI
C(i) AVG(usto) [P]ONT(ifici) M(aximo)
TRIB(unicia) POTES(tate) CO(nsuli)
PROCO(n)[S](uli) CANA[NEF]ATES
AB CIVITATE LEVG(ae) [...]

To the emperor Caesar Gaius Messius
Quintus Traianus
Decius, the pious, fortunat
e, Augustus, high priest
with tribunicial powers, consul,
proconsul. From the Cananafatian
town ... leagues

A satellite photo can be found here.

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