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Commemorative inscription for the restoration of the bridge over the Tirso river

 
 
The bridge on the Tirso river, built during the Roman period (perhaps in the second half of the 1st century B.C.), originally had four arches until the end of the eighteenth century, when a further arch was added: a Latin inscription commemorates its construction and was located near the bridge until 1870 when the bridge was definitely demolished.
 

The text, on sixteen lines, tells:

Victorio Amedeo III,/ Sardorum Regi,/Arestanei marchioni,/Providissimo (et) beneficentissimo,/qui/ ut per occidentalem plagam transeuntibus/ tutus commodiorq(ue) aditus sit/ solidam planamq(ue) hanc sterni viam/ firmissimos hos extrui sup(ra) Tirsum pontes,/Solario Prorege etì Cusano Antistite/consulentibus adiuvantibus,/proponente ac dirigente Architecto Moia,/fecit./Grati obsequen(tes) monumentum/Arestanenses subditi et filii/p(ecunia) p(ublica)(posuerunt).

 
It has already been said that the epigraph mentions an added arch (even if the text says firmissimos pontes, that means very solid arches) and the construction (or renewal) of the paved road to make it safe and easy to travel for those who went through the western plain of Sardinia.

 

The author of the work was Savoy king Vittorio Amedeo III, marquis of Oristano, and technical realization was made by the architect Moia. 
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