The Pons Fabricius in Rome, built in 62 BC, is the oldest Roman bridge in the city still standing in its original form, and it still carries its builder's inscription. Lucius Fabricius, curator of the roads, carved it into the arches: he had the bridge built, and he approved it himself ("faciundum coeravit eidemque probavit").

• ✓Cassius Dio, Roman History 37.45.3
• ✓Platner & Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929): Pons Fabricius; Pons Aemilius
• ✓CIL VI 1305 (CIL I² 751), transcription via Livius.org
• ✓Whitney, Bridges of the World (2003), pp. 61-63
• ✓Turismo Roma: Rome's seven most iconic bridges

This bridge in Rome still carries its builder's sign-off. Carved in 62 BC. It names Lucius Fabricius, a Roman roads official. It says he had the bridge built. And that he approved it himself. The Tiber floods hard. On Christmas night, 1598, it tore through Rome. Just downstream, a bridge rebuilt barely twenty-five years earlier lost half its arches. Today, one arch is left, stranded mid-river. Fabricius's bridge was already over sixteen hundred years old. It held. Look at the middle pier. There's a small arch cut through it. In a big flood, water pours through that gap instead of piling up against solid stone. Two thousand years later, people still walk across it. His approval still stands.