Base for statue of Valentinian I, emperor. Furnos Minus (Africa Proconsularis). 366-367
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Furnos Minus
Province:
Africa Proconsularis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Precise find-spot unrecorded
Current Location:
No record
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Height(cm):
100
Width(cm):
41
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Valentinian I
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Council (ordo) of Furnos
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
366
Latest :
367
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, no. 14752
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, p. 113, n. 4
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Clementissimo / principi, ac to/tius or[bi]s Aug(usto), / [d(omino)] n(ostro) Valentini/[a]no, procons(ulatu) / (6) [I]ul(i) Festi, v(iri) c(larissimi), simul / cum Antonio Dra/contio, v(iro) c(larissimo), ag(ente) v(ices) p(raefectorum) p(raetorio), / ordo Furnita/nus consecravit.
Trans:
To the most merciful ruler, and Augustus of the whole world, our lord Valentinianus; under the governorship of Iulius Festus, of clarissimus rank, along with Antonius Dracontius, [also] of clarissimus rank, serving as praetorian prefect, the council (ordo) of Furnos consecrated [this].
