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Another famous example of a phantom inscription is in the Maison Carrée in Nîmes in southern France. For the history of the reconstruction of the original inscription see Jean C. Balty, Études sur la Maison Carrée de Nîmes (Bruxelles: Latomus: Revue d’Études latines, 1960) pp. 150–177.

The original inscription was reconstructed by Filippo Magi, “Le iscrizioni recentemente scoperte sull’obelisco vaticano,” Studi Romani 11 (1963) pp. 50–56; see also Alföldy, Der Obelisk aus dem Petersplatz in Rom: ein historisches Monument der Antike (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, 1990; and Alföldy, Die Bauinschriften des Aquäduktes von Segovia und des Amphitheaters von Tarraco (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1997).

Alföldy, “Eine Bauinschrift,” pp. 195–226.

Dinca and Morelli, BCAR 91 (1986), p. 323.

Alföldy, “Eine Bauinschrift,” p. 201. He has suggested several corrections, which we have adopted.

See Rosella Rea, Tudor Dinca, Alessandra Morelli and Stefano Priuli, Bulletino della Commissione archeologica communale di Roma (BCAR) 91 (1986), pp. 318ff.

Géza Alföldy, “Eine Bauinschrift aus dem Colosseum,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 109 (1995), pp. 195–226.

Carlo Fea, Notizie degli scavi nell’ Anfiteatro Flavio e nel Foro Traiano (Rome: Nella stamperia di Lino Contedini, 1813), pp. 3–9.

Martial, Liber Spectaculorum 5.

See Harold Mattingly, Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol 2: Vespasian to Domitian (London: British Museum, 1930), p. lxxvi, nos. 190–191.