Lost base for bronze statue of Memmius Vitrasius Orfitus, prefect of the City; erected to its patron by the guild of all contractors (corpus omnium mancipum). From Rome.357-360.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Roma
Province:
Roma
Region:
Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details:
Aventine, found in church of Santa Prisca, possibly out of context
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Base, for bronze statue
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Memmius Vitrasius Orfitus signo Honorius, consul and prefect of the City
Position:
Prefects of Rome or Constantinople
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Guild of contractors (Corpus omnium mancipum)
Position:
Guilds
DATE
Earliest:
357
Latest :
360
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1742 (+p. 4749)
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Honori. / Memmio Vitrasio Orfito, v(iro) c(larissimo), / nobilitate actibusque ad exem/plum praecipuo, praefecto urbi /(5) et iterum praefecto urbi, procon/suli Africae ac tertio sacrarum / cognitionum iudici, comiti in / consistorio ordinis primi, le/gato secundo difficillimis tem/poribus petitu senatus et p(opuli) R(omani), /(11) comiti ordinis secundi expedition(es) / bellicas gubernanti, consulari Sicil(iae), / pontifici Solis, pontifici Vestae, / XVviro s(acris) f(aciundis), consuli, praetori, q(uaestori) k(andidato), om/nibusq(ue) perfuncto honorib(us) intra /(16) aetatis primordia. Ob providentiam / et statum optimum urbi Romae ab eo / redditum, corpus omnium manci/pum statuam sub aere constituit.
Trans:
(Statue) of Honorius. To Memmius Vitrasius Orfitus, of clarissimus rank, distinguished by birth and deeds and as an example, prefect of the City and again prefect of the City, governor (proconsular) of Africa and three times judge in the imperial court of appeal, count of the first order in the imperial consistory, a second legate in difficult times by petition of the Senate and Roman people, count of the second order directing military expeditions, governor (consularis) of the province of Sicily, priest of the Sun, priest of the goddess Vesta, member of the college of fifteen men for sacred affairs, suffect consul, praetor, quaestor (quaestor candidatus) and having fulfilled all honours at an early age. On account of his providence and the return to better status of the city of Rome through him, the corporation of all contractors set up a bronze statue.
