Base for statue of empress Eudoxia, wife of Valentinian III. Rome. 439-455
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Roma
Province:
Roma
Region:
Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details:
Found under Ospedale di S. Giovanni Laterano, ‘nel risarcimento del muro di prospetto sud dell’aula)
Current Location:
Still there
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Yes
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
179,5
Width(cm):
90
Depth(cm):
90
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Eudoxia Augusta, wife of Valentinian III
Position:
Imperial Family
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Flavius Florenus
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
439
Latest :
455
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1995, 196
Scrinari S. M. V., 'Contributo all’urbanistica tardo antica sul campo Laterano', Actes du XIe Congrès international d’archéologie chrétienne, Lyon, Vienne, Grenoble, Genève et Aoste 21 - 28 septembre 1986, Rome 1989, 2213
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 40806
Santa Maria Scrinari, V., Il Laterano Imperiale, v. 2. Dagli 'horti Domitiae' alla Capella cristiana (Monumenti di Antichità Cristiana), Vatican City 1995, 261-262
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Dominae nostrae / Eudoxiae Augustae / coniugi d(omini) n(ostri) Placidi / Valentiniani, perpetui, /(5) victoris et triumphatoris, / semper Augusti. / Flavius Florenus, v(ir) c(larissimus), / devotissimus /(10) pietatis eorum.
Trans:
To our lady Eudoxia Augusta, wife of our lord Placidus Valentinianus, perpetual, victorious and triumphant, forever Augustus. Flavius Florenus, of clarissimus rank, most devoted to their piety.
