Brambilla, Ambrogio Engraver (printmaker) Duchetti, Claudio Publisher [1581-1586] 1581 1586 Hu 30d A 41 S.P.Q.R. IMP. CAESARI DIVI NERVAE F. NERVA TRAIANO AUG. GERMANIC. DACICO PONT. MAX. TRIB. POT. XVII COS. VI P. P. AD DECLARANDU[M] QUANTAE ALTITUDINIS MONS ET LOCUS SIT EGESTUS. SENATUS POPULUSQUE ROMANUS IMPERATORI CAESARI DIVI NERVAE FILIO NERVAE TRAIANO AUGUSTO GERMANICO DACICO PONTIFICI MAXIMO TRIBUNICIA POTESTATE XVII CONSULI VI PATRI PATRIAE AD DECLARANDUM QUANTAE ALTITUDINIS MONS ET LOCUS SIT EGESTUS. S(enatus) P(opulus)q(ue) R(omanus) | Imp(eratori) Caesari divi Nervae f(ilio) Nervae | Traiano Aug(usto) Germanic(o) Dacico | pont(ifici) max(imo) trib(unicia) pot(estate) XVII co(n)s(uli) VI p(atri) p(atriae) | ad declarandu(m) quantae altitu | dinis mons et locus sit egestus.

NOTE: On this print, the inscription differs in several respects from the original. In addition to not observing the original line breaks, in this print the first line of the inscription on the base of the column is abbreviated to “SPQR”, though on the actual monument it is written “Senatus Populusque Romanus.” In addition, “Germanic(o)” should be abbreviated to “Germ(anico)”; “pont(ifici) max(imo)” should be “pontif(ici) maximo”. The print is missing “Imp(eratori) VI” after “trib(unicia) pot(estate) XVII” in the fourth line, and in the final line it is missing “tant[is oper]ibus” after “locus.” Compare with Source Text below. Senatus popolusque Romanus
Imp(eratori) Caesari dìvì Nervae f(ilio) Nervae
Traiano Aug(usto) Germ(anico) Dacico, pontif(ici)
maximo, trib(unicia) pot(estate) X̅V̅I̅I̅, imp(eratori) V̅I̅, co(n)s(uli) V̅I̅, p(atri) p(atriae),
ad declarandum, quantae altitudinis
mons et locus tant[is oper]ibus sit egestus.
{CIL VI.960 cf. VI p. 3070 et VI p. 3777 et VI p. 4310} The Senate and People of Rome (dedicate this column) to the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus, son of the divine Nerva, Germanicus, Dacicus, pontifex maximus, invested with the tribunican power for the 17th time, proclaimed emperor six times, consul for the 6th time, father of the fatherland, as an illustration of the height of the hill that was demolished in the course of these great labors. lower right Claudii Duchetti formis. Ambrosius Brambilla fecit. At the press of Claudio Duchetti. Ambrosio Brambilla made it. Rome Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago DG62.5.L2 Chicago United States 49.5 x 30.4 cm sheet, plate mark measuring 48.2 x 29.6 cm 49.5 30.4 48.2 29.6 Gruterus, Janus, Marquard Gude, Joannes Georgius Graevius, and Pieter Burman. Inscriptiones antiqvae totivs orbis romani in absolvtissimvm corpvs redactae olim avspiciis Iosephi Scaligeri et Marci Velseri. Amsteldaedami: excvdit F. Halma, 1707., p.247, n.4 Etching with Engraving Etching Engraving