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The Weekly Gazette
East Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
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Fragments of ancient Roman Acta Urbis inscriptions from the 2nd century AD, including reports on Emperor Trajan's victory over the Parthians and a trial of a Spanish governor, discovered at Ostia by Prof. Arturo Calza.
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What probably is one of the oldest government communiques in existence, containing fifty-two lines of the Acta Urbis, has been discovered at Ostia, the former commercial port of Rome, writes a United Press correspondent.
The three fragments, inscribed in Latin characters on slabs of marble, refer to events in the years 116, 145, 146 and 151-152 of our era.
It was the custom for the authorities to affix marble tables like the fragments discovered outside public buildings. The events referred to in the Acta were of a national and official character.
In one of the fragments recently unearthed a reference is made to a victory of the Emperor Trajan over the Parthians. The text, as deciphered by Prof. Arturo Calza, superintendent of the Ostia excavations, refers to Trajan's passage of the River Tigris after having taken the Parthian cities of Nisib and Batnes This early piece of official journalism ordered public festivities to celebrate the victory.
The second fragment deals with a trial in the senate of the Roman governor of Spain, then a colony. This fragment contains sixteen lines. Reference also is made to a quinquennial bullfight which was about to take place in the Flaminian circus. It was evidently a great sporting event. The consul prosecuted for his misdeeds in Spain was Cornelius Prisicanus.
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discovery of three marble fragments containing acta urbis; one orders public festivities for trajan's victory; another details trial of spanish governor and upcoming bullfight.
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Three fragments of Acta Urbis inscribed on marble slabs discovered at Ostia, dating to 116, 145, 146, and 151-152 AD. One fragment describes Emperor Trajan's victory over Parthians, including capture of Nisib and Batnes, crossing of Tigris, and ordered festivities. Another covers senate trial of Roman governor of Spain, Cornelius Prisicanus, for misdeeds, and mentions a quinquennial bullfight in Flaminian circus.