Milliarium of Aiton


Milliarium of Aiton is an ancient Roman milestone discovered in the 1758 in Aiton commune, near Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Dating from 108 AD, shortly after the Roman conquest of Dacia, the milestone shows the construction of the road from Potaissa to Napoca, by demand of the Emperor Trajan. It indicates the distance of ten thousand feet to Potaissa. This is the first epigraphical attestation of the settlements of Potaissa and Napoca in Roman Dacia.
The complete inscription is: "Imp/ Caesar Nerva/ Traianus Aug/ Germ Dacicus/ pontif maxim/ pot XII cos V/ imp VI p p fecit/ per coh I Fl Vlp/ Hisp mil c R eq/ a Potaissa Napo/cam / m p X". It was recorded in the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. III, the 1627, Berlin, 1863.
This milliarium is an attestation of the road known to be built by Cohors I Hispanorum miliaria.
A copy of this milliarium was erected in June 1993 in front of the Turda Post Office. Another copy exists in the front of the Aiton School.

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