06-23-2005, 04:56 AM
Jasper seems to have the correct reference. CIL VIII 2728.
I came across a summary of it in the boook, Engineering In The Ancient World, J.G. Landels, London, 1978. Page 52-53. He gives a summary and a partial english "quote".He mentions the author as a certain Nonius Datus, a retired army surveyor (librator). The stone was set up in152 A.D. after Nonius had rescued a "civil engineering" project. The locals had been digging a tunnel through a hill from both sides and missed each other. This was in Saldae (modern Bougie? in Algeria) 200km east of Algiers.
Kevin
I came across a summary of it in the boook, Engineering In The Ancient World, J.G. Landels, London, 1978. Page 52-53. He gives a summary and a partial english "quote".He mentions the author as a certain Nonius Datus, a retired army surveyor (librator). The stone was set up in152 A.D. after Nonius had rescued a "civil engineering" project. The locals had been digging a tunnel through a hill from both sides and missed each other. This was in Saldae (modern Bougie? in Algeria) 200km east of Algiers.
Kevin
