Roads, mountain passes, quarries - Vaud (Waadt)

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Roads, mountain passes, quarries - Vaud (Waadt) - Milestones

In Vaud twenty-three milestones have emerged. They were found in Chavornay, Crans (Nyon), Curtilles, Dully, Entreroches (Orny), Etoy, Lavigny, Montagny-près-Yverdon, Nyon, Orbe, Paudex, Penthaz, Pompaples, Rennaz, Saint-Prex, Saint-Saphorin, Saint-Triphon (Ollon), Treycovagnes, Versvey (Yvorne; two), Vevey, Vich, and Villeneuve. They record the distance to Octodurus (Martigny VS), Colonia Iulia Equestris (Nyon), and Aventicum (Avenches).

IMPERATORIBVS

CAESARIBVS AVGVST[is]

M(arco) AVREL(io) ANTONINO

ET L(ucio) AVREL(io) VERO

P(atribus) P(atriae) A(venticum) M(ilia) P(assuum) XXXVIIII

Milestone from 166-169 AD.

Discovered in 2013 in Pompaples.

Photo: EDCS-71500118.

Literature

Mottas 1980; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 466, 621-623; Drack-Fellmann 1991, 163, 196-197, 200-203, 265, 294-295.

[26-Mar-2024]

	IMPERATORIBVS CAESARIBVS AVGVST[is] M(arco) AVREL(io) ANTONINO ET L(ucio) AVREL(io) VERO P(atribus) P(atriae) A(venticum) M(ilia) P(assuum) XXXVIIII
	Milestone from 166-169 AD. Discovered in 2013 in Pompaples. Photo: EDCS-71500118.