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LSA-1473 Base for posthumous statue of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, consul designate and praetorian prefect. Rome. 387.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Rome, Uncertain provenance
Current Location: Rome, Palazzo Altemps, ground floor courtyard
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 141 Width(cm): 94 Depth(cm): 65
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, consul designate and praetorian prefect Position: Consuls Gender: Male
Awarder: Not named Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 387 Latest : 387
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1778 (+p. 4757)

INSCRIPTION
Text: Agorii. / Vettio Agorio Praetextato, v(iro) c(larissimo), // (first column) pontifici Vestae, / pontifici Soli(s), /(5) quindecemviro, / auguri, / tauroboliato, / curiali, / neocoro, /(10) hierofantae, / patri sacrorum, // (second column) quaestori / candidato, / praetori urbano, /(15) correctori Tus/ciae et Umbriae, / consulari / Lusitaniae, / proconsuli /(20) Achaiae, / praefecto urbi, / praee(ecto) (sic, pro praefecto) praet(orio) II (sic) / Italiae et Illyrici, / consuli / designato. // Dedicata Kal(endis) Febr(uariis) / d(omino) n(ostro) Fl(avio) Valentiniano Aug(usto) III / et Eutropio conss(ulibus).



Trans: [Statue of] Agorius. To Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, of clarissimus rank, priest of Vesta, priest of the Sun god, member of the board of fifteen men (for sacred affairs), augur, tauroboliate, curialis (of Hercules), temple warden (neocorus), hierophant (of Hecate), father of the sacred rites [of the cult of Mithras), quaestor (quaestor candidatus), urban praetor, governor (corrector) of Tuscia et Umbria, governor (consularis) of Lusitania, governor (proconsul) of Achaia, prefect of the City, praetorian prefect of Italy and Illyricum for the second time, consul designate. (on the side) Dedicated on the Kalends of February, during the consulship of our lord Flavius Valentinianus (II) for the third time and Eutropius.
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