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LSA-2008 Fragment of base for statue of emperor. Emerita Augusta (Lusitania). Late third to earlier fourth century








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Emerita Augusta Province: Lusitania Region: Iberian peninsula
Details: Found in 1991 in the calle John Lennon in Mérida, in the region of the <i>Forum Coloniae</i>
Current Location: Almacen del Consorcio de la Ciudad Monumental de Mérida
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 46 Width(cm): 58 Depth(cm): 60
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Name lost Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Calpurnianus (?), possibly governor of Lusitania Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 280 Latest : 350
MAIN REFERENCE
Ramírez Sádaba, J. L., Catálogo de las inscripciones imperiales de Augusta Emerita, Mérida 2003, no. 59

Hispania epigraphica, Madrid, 7, 2001, no. 115

L'Année épigraphique, Paris, 2003, 874
INSCRIPTION
Text: ------ / [--- co](n)s(uli) / [proc]onsuli / [--- Ca]lpurnianus / [---(?) d(evotus) n(umini)] m(aiestati)q(ue) e(ius) Trans: To ... consul and proconsul ... . Calpurnianus, devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, [set this up].
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