Base for statue of Petronius Maximus, prefect of the City; statue commanded by the emperors. From Rome, Forum of Trajan. 421.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Roma
Province:
Roma
Region:
Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details:
Forum of Trajan (found in S. Maria dell’Angelo)
Current Location:
Florence, Museo Archeologico
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Yes
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Petronius Maximus, prefect of the City
Position:
Prefects of Rome or Constantinople
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Theodosius II, Valentinian III, Constantius III, at request of the Senate and People of Rome
Position:
Emperors
DATE
Earliest:
421
Latest :
421
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1749 (+p. 4750-1)
Granino Cerere, M. G., Supplementa Italica - Imagines. Roma (CIL VI) 3, Collezioni Fiorentine, Rome 2008, n. 3509
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Petroni Maximi. / Ddd(omini) nnn(ostri), invictissimi principes Honorius, / Theodosius et Constantius, censores / remuneratoresque virtutum, /(5) Petronio Maximo, v(iro) c(larissimo), praef(ecto) urb(i). Ad petitione / senatus amplissimi populiq(ue) Romani statuam / meritorum perenne monumentum in foro / Ulpio constitui iusserunt, cuius a proavis / atabisq(ue) nobilitas parib(us) titulorum insignib(us) /(10) ornatur, qui primaevus in consistorio / sacro tribunus et notarius meruit nono decim(o) / aetatis anno, sacrarum remunerationum / per triennium comes, post praef(ectus) urb(i) anno et sex / mensib(us), hasque omnes dignitates intra vice/simum quintum adsecutus aetatis annum /(16) publicum in se testimonium et aeternorum / principum iudicium provocavit.
Trans:
[Statue of] Petronius Maximus. Our lords, the unconquered princes Honorius, Theodosius and Constantius, judges and rewarders of virtues, to Petronius Maximus, of clarissimus rank, prefect of the City. By request of the most splendid senate and Roman people, [the emperors] commanded this statue to be set up as an eternal monument of his services in the forum Ulpium (ie, of Trajan), to him who is embellished by the equally distinguished titles of his grandparents and ancestors, who in his youth was a tribune and notary in the imperial consistory in his nineteenth year, count of the imperial purse (comes sacrarum remunerationum) for three years, afterwards prefect of the City for one year and six months, and who deserved all following dignities within his twenty-fifh year of age, as a public testimony and as a decision of the eternal princes.
