<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Milliarium_of_Aiton" class="extiw" title="w:en:Milliarium of Aiton">Milliarium of Aiton</a>, a Roman milestone discovered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiton,_Cluj" class="extiw" title="en:Aiton, Cluj">Aiton</a> commune, near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Cluj-Napoca" class="extiw" title="w:en:Cluj-Napoca">Cluj-Napoca</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Romania" class="extiw" title="w:en:Romania">Romania</a>, reproduction of a drawing by M. P. Szatmary done in 1758. The milestone, is dating from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:108_AD" class="extiw" title="w:en:108 AD">108 AD</a> and shows the construction of the road from <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Potaissa" class="mw-redirect" title="Potaissa">Potaissa</a> to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Napoca" class="mw-redirect" title="Napoca">Napoca</a>, by demand of the Emperor <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trajan" class="mw-redirect" title="Trajan">Trajan</a>. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet (P.M.X.) to Potaissa. It is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Roman_Dacia" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Dacia">Roman Dacia</a>. The complete inscription is: "<i>Imp(erator)/ Caesar Nerva/ Traianus Aug(ustus)/ Germ(anicus) Dacicus/ pontif(ex) maxim(us)/ </i>(sic)<i> pot(estate) XII co(n)s(ul) V/ imp(erator) VI p(ater) p(atriae) fecit/ per coh(ortem) I Fl(aviam) Vlp(iam)/ Hisp(anam) mil(liariam) c(ivium) R(omanorum) eq(uitatam)/ a Potaissa Napo/cam / m(ilia) p(assuum) X</i>". The inscription was recorded in <i> <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Latinarum" title="Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum">Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum</a></i>, vol.III, the 1627, Berlin, 1863.
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2011-02-06
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