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Water pipe with Latin inscription from the reign of Vespasian.The text is unusual for being sunk into the surface and its sizable length of 1 m. [1]A Roman lead pipe inscription is a Latin inscription on a Roman water pipe made of lead which provides brief information on its manufacturer and owner, often the reigning emperor himself as the supreme authority.
Roman lead pipe inscriptions bearing the name of the owner were meant to prevent such water theft. He, therefore, made a meticulous survey of the intake and the supply of each line, and then investigated the apparent discrepancies.
[A 16] In the sixteenth century, another water supply was identified: a lead pipe, the Saint-Alric pipe, which is 1,600 meters in length. [A 17] Joseph Guilleux identified six water outlets, including one situated between the Madeleine Tower and the Pans-de-Gorron Tower. These outlets facilitated the evacuation of rainwater and sewage. [A 18]
An inscription on a lead pipe allowed for the dating of the complex to Caligula’s reign from 37 to 41 AD. ... a lead water pipe that archaeologists found among the ruins bore the name of the ...
The measurement of allowances was basically flawed; officially approved lead pipes carried inscriptions with information on the pipe's manufacturer, its fitter, and probably on its subscriber and their entitlement; but water allowance was measured in quinaria (cross-sectional area of the pipe) at the point of supply and no formula or physical ...
A cross section of a lead water pipe is displayed under a microscope in a lab at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center in Cincinnati last ...
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Bread stamp depicting Romulus and Remus suckling at the she-wolf (1st century). A signaculum is a general Latin term for a seal or sign produced by a stamp or signet ring, [1] used in modern scholarship in particular reference to Roman lead pipe inscriptions, brick stamps, bread stamps, [2] and the lead "dog tag" of Roman soldiers.