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LSA-1460 Plaque from base for statue of Sextus Claudius Petronius Probus, consul and praetorian prefect; erected by his son and daughter-in-law. Rome. 395.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Uncertain provenance, first recorded as seen in Palazzo dei Cesi near S. Peter’s basilica.
Current Location: Rome, now in Mus. Cap. Sala I del primo piano (inv. NCE 2499).
OBJECT
Object: Plaque Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 76 Width(cm): 79 Depth(cm):
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Sextus Petronius Probus, consul and praetorian prefect Position: Consuls Gender: Male
Awarder: Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius, consul, and Anicia Juliana, children of the honorand Position: Family Members
DATE
Earliest: 395 Latest : 395
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1753 (+p. 4751-2)

Gregori, G. L. (ed.), Supplementa Italica. Imagines. Roma (CIL VI), 1. Musei Capitolini, Rome 1999, no. 219
INSCRIPTION
Text: Sexto Petronio Probo, / Anicianae domus / culmini, proconsuli / Africae, praefecto /(5) praetorio quater / Italiae, Illyrici, Afri/cae, Galliarum, con/suli ordinario, con/sulum patri. Anicius / Hermogenianus /(10) Olybrius, v(ir) c(larissimus), consul / ordinarius, et Ani/cia Iuliana, c(larissima) f(emina) eius, / devotissimi filii, / dedicarunt.

 Trans: To Sextus Petronius Probus, summit of the house of the Anicii, governor (proconsul) of Africa, four times praetorian prefect of Italy, Illyricum, Africa and the Gauls, consul ordinarius, father of consuls. Anicius Hermogenianus Olybrius, of clarissimus rank, consul ordinarius, and his wife of clarissimus rank Anicia Iuliana, most devoted children, dedicated [this statue].
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