Lost inscription, probably from base for statue of Fabia Aconia Paulina, priestess and wife of Vettius Praetextatus, consul designate. Rome. 384-400.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Roma
Province:
Roma
Region:
Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details:
Uncertain provenance, first recorded in the fifteenth century as in the church of the SS. Apostoli
Current Location:
Lost
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Fabia Aconia Paulina, priestess and wife of Vettius Praetextatus
Position:
Religious Office-Holders
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Not named, presumably a family dedication
Position:
Family Members
DATE
Earliest:
384
Latest :
400
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1780 (+p. 4759)
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Fabiae Aconiae Paulinae, c(larissimae) f(eminae), / filiae Aconii Catullini, v(iri) c(larissimi), ex praef(ecto) et consule ord(inario), / uxori Vetti Praetextati, v(iri) c(larissimi), praef(ecti) et consulis designati, / sacratae apud Eleusinam deo Iaccho Cereri et Corae, /(5) sacratae apud Laernam deo Libero et Cereri et Corae, / sacratae apud Aeginam deabus, tauroboliatae, Isiacae, / hierophantriae deae Hecatae, Graecosacraneae deae Cereris.
Trans:
To Fabia Aconia Paulina, of clarissimus rank, daughter of Aco Catullinus, of clarissimus rank, former prefect and consul ordinarius, wife of Vettius Praetextatus, of clarissimus rank, prefect and consul designate, initiated at Eleusis to the god Iacchus, Ceres and Cora, initiated at Laerna to the god Liber and Ceres and Cora, iniciated in Aegina to the gods, tauroboliate, initiate of Isis, hierophant of the goddess Hecate, graecosacranea of the goddess Ceres.
