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• INSCRIPTION OF EMPEROR CONSTANTINE
  AD 321–326
  Accidental discovery in the 18th century
  Height: 59 cm, width: 172 cm,
  thickness: 12 cm, height of letters: 6–6.5 cm
  Original marble slab is stored in Varaždinske Toplice Local History Museum
  
  The inscription reveals that the buildings were reconstructed after having been destroyed in a fire, and further evidence of construction works throughout the entire fourth-century complex was also obtained during archaeological excavations. Inscription field is inside the moulded frame:
  
  Flavius Valerius Constantinus, pious, happy, the greatest, venerable emperor, restored the Aquae Iasae, which had been ruined by the strenght of fire,to its previous appearance with porticos and all decorations,and proclaimed, with provision because of his piety, the weekly fair on Sunday during the whole year. Under the care by Valerius Catullinus, the most excellent man, the governor of the provincia of Pannonia Prima Superior.