Dedication to Constantine I and Licinius on city gate, probably crowned with statue of a Trophy. Tropaea (Moesia Secunda); currently in the National History Museum, Bucarest. 315-317
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Tropaea
Province:
Moesia II
Region:
North Balkans and Danube provinces
Details:
Adamclisi
Current Location:
Not recorded
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Gate/Arch
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Constantine I and Licinius, associated with statue of a Trophy
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Petronius Annianus and Iulius Iulianus, praetorian prefects
Position:
High Imperial Office-Holders
DATE
Earliest:
315
Latest :
317
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , III suppl. 2, 13734
Popescu, E., Inscripțiile grecești și latine din secolele IV-XIII descoperite în România, Bucarest 1976, pp. 183-5 no. 170
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Romanae securitatis libertatisq(ue) vindicibus, / dd(ominis) nn(ostris) Fl(avio) Val(erio) Constantino [[et Val(erio) Liciniano / Licinio]], piis, felicibus, aeternis Augg(ustis), / quorum virtute et providentia edomitis / (5) ubique barbararum gentium populis, / ad confirmandam limitis tutelam etiam / Tropeensium civitas auspicato a fundamentis / feliciter opere constructa est. / (9) Petr(onius) Annianus, v(ir) c(larissimus), et Iul(ius) Iulianus, v(ir) em(inentissimus), praeff(ecti) praet(orio), numini eorum semper dicatissimi.
Trans:
To the defenders of Roman security and liberty, our Lords Flavius Valerius Constantinus and Valerius Licinianus Licinius, the pious, fortunate and eternal Augusti, by whose virtue and providence, having everywhere tamed the peoples of the barbarian tribes, in order to strengthen the defence of the border the city of the Tropaeans has also been fortified, by a work built auspiciously from the foundations. Petronius Annianus, of clarissimus rank, and Iulius Iulianus, of eminentissimus rank, praetorian prefects (set this up) always most devoted to their divine spirit
