Base for statue, possibly imperial. Novae (Moesia Secunda). 432
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Novae
Province:
Moesia II
Region:
North Balkans and Danube provinces
Details:
Novae, military camp
Current Location:
Novae,lapidarium, inv. no. 63/97 w
OBJECT
Object:
Base, for bronze statue
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Yes
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
33
Width(cm):
53
Depth(cm):
37
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Unknown, possibly imperial
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Unknown
Awarder:
Flafonius and Diodorus, primipilarii
Position:
Military Officer or Unit
DATE
Earliest:
432
Latest :
432
MAIN REFERENCE
Sarnowski, T., Drei spätkaiserzeitliche Statuenbasen aus Novae in Niedermösien, Mirkovic, M. (ed), Römische Städte und Festungen an der Donau, Belgrade 2005, pp. 223-30 no. 3
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Flafonius (sic) et Diodorus, p(rimi)p(ilarii) / ex provincia Elisponto, / pasto mil(ite), statua(m) erigerunt (sic) / in vulto Dionyssi, conss(ulatibus) Valeri / et Aaeri (sic), vv(irorum) cc(larissimorum), ind(ictione) XV.
Trans:
Flafonius and Diodorus, the primipilarii from the province of Hellespontus, after having finished their service, set up this statue in front of [the statue of] Dionysius, in the year of the consulship of Valerius and Aetius, men of clarissimus rank, in the 15th indiction.
