DECREE OF AN EMPEROR ON AQUEDUCTS
   
( AD 6th century )
 
 
( Johnson, Coleman-Norton & Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes, Austin, 1961, p. 253, n. 319 ).
 
 
      This inscription, discovered at Jerusalem in 1925, is an edict of a palace official at Constantinople containing an imperial decree.
      For similar regulations for the Dominate see CJ 11, 43, 6, 1 and 11, 43, 10, 2.
 
 
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.
 
 
      Flavius Aeneas, silentiary in the imperial palace, to landowners, lessees, and farmers.
      Know that the most holy and most pious master of the whole world has decreed that, in accordance with the sacred constitutions, no person is allowed to sow or to plant within fifteen feet of either side of an aqueduct.
      If anyone tries to do this, he shall be subject to capital punishment and his property shall be confiscated.
      The foot measure is subject to the following standards.