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LSA-1152 Probable base for statue of Galerius, emperor. Scythopolis (Palaestina II). 310-311








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Scythopolis Province: Palaestina II Region: Near East, with Cyprus
Details: First recorded 1962 in Bet She'an (Beisan)
Current Location: Bet She'an, Museum, without published inv. no.
OBJECT
Object: Base or milestone Material: Local stone Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Column Height(cm): 118 Width(cm): 57 Depth(cm): 57
Language: Bilingual Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Galerius Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Valerius Firmilianus, governor of Syria Palaestina Position: Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest: 310 Latest : 311
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1964, p. 78 no. 198

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, , 43, 1993, no. 1073

Laniado, A., Last, R. and B. Porath, A Dedication to Galerius from Scythopolis. A Revised Reading*, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 98, 229-37, Bonn 1993,

INSCRIPTION
Text: [F]ortissimo pr[o]vident(issmo) / D(omino nostro) imp(eratori) [Ca]es(ari) Gal(erio) Val(erio) / Maximiano p(io) f(elici) semper / invicto Aug(usto). Val(erius) Fẹr- / (5) mi[l]ị̣anus praes(es) pro- / vinc(iae) Sur(iae) Pal(aestinae) numini / maiest(ati)q(ue) eius semper / devotissimus / feliciter. / διὰ τῶν περὶ Λεόντιον καὶ Εὐ̣γ̣[έν]ιον / (10) στρατηγ(ῶν) πόλ(εως) κολ(ονίας). Trans: To our most powerful and provident lord the emperor Caesar Galerius Maximianus the pious, fortunate and always invincible Augustus. Valerius Firmilianus, governor (praeses) of the province of Syria Palaestina (set this up), always most devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, with good fortune. Leontius and Eugenius, duumviri of the city, the colony, took charge.
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