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LSA-1416 Lost base for statue of Ceionius Rufius Albinus, consul and prefect of the City. Rome. 336-337.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Reported as being seen ‘in Capitolio’
Current Location: Lost
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Ceionius Rufius Albinus, consul and prefect of the City Position: Consuls Gender: Male
Awarder: The Senate Position: Senate and People of Rome
DATE
Earliest: 336 Latest : 337
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1708=31906=41318

INSCRIPTION
Text: Ceionium Rufium Albinum, v(irum) c(larissimum), cons(ulem) [ordinarium, praefectum urbi], / philosophum, Rufi Volusiani, bis ordinarii cons(ulis), [bis praefecti urbi, praef(ecti) praetorio] / fiḷium, senatus ex consulto suo, quod eius liberis [quaesturam petentibus interventu eius] / post Caesariana tempora, id est post annos CCCLXXX et I, [primum sibi quaestorum omnium creandorum] /(5) auctoritatem decreverit, [statua honoravit]. / Fl(avius) Magnus Ienuarius (sic, for ‘Ianuarius’), v(ir) c(larissimus), curator statuarum, [ponendam curavit et dedicavit].
Trans: The Senate, by its own decree, honoured with a statue Ceionius Rufius Albinus, of clarissimus rank, consul, prefect of the City, philosopher, son of Rufius Volusianus, twice consul, twice prefect of the City, praetorian prefect, because by his intervention for his children seeking the quaestorship, he gained for it (= the Senate) the authority to create all quaestors, for the first since the time of Caesar (post Caesariana tempora), that is after 381 years. Fl(avius) Magnus Ianuarius, of clarissimus rank, the supervisor of statues (curator statuarum), saw that it was set up and dedicated it.
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