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LSA-2009 Fragmentary plaque from base for statue of tetrarchic emperor, possibly Maximian. Emerita Augusta (Lusitania). 293-296








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Emerita Augusta Province: Lusitania Region: Iberian peninsula
Details: Found built into a wall of the 18th century Patio of the Hospital de los Hermanos de Jésus in Mérida
Current Location: Mérida, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano inv. no. 142
OBJECT
Object: Plaque Material: Marble Re-Use? No
Form: Unknown Height(cm): 66 Width(cm): 40 Depth(cm): 5
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Tetrarchic emperor, possibly Maximian Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Gaius Sulpicius ...us, governor of Lusitania Position: Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest: 293 Latest : 296
MAIN REFERENCE
Ramírez Sádaba, J. L., Catálogo de las inscripciones imperiales de Augusta Emerita, Mérida 2003, no. 60

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , II 48
INSCRIPTION
Text: [Imp(eratori) Caes(ari) M(arco) Aur(elio) Val(erio)] / [Maximiano, pio, fel(ici)], / [semper] Aug(usto), pont(ifici) max(imo), / [Per]s(ico) max(imo), Ger(manico) max(imo), / (5) [Sarm(atico)] max(imo), trib(unicia) pot(estate) / [X(?), co(n)s(uli)] IIII, p(atri) p(atriae), pro/[co(n)s(uli)], G(aius) Sulpicius / [---]us, v(ir) p(erfectissimus), p(raeses) p(rovinciae) L(usitaniae), / [mai]estati eius / [semp(er) di]catissimus.

 Trans: To the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus, pious, fortunate, forever Augustus, highest priest, greatest victor over the Persians, greatest victor over the Germans, greatest victor over the Sarmatians, holder of tribunician power for the 10th time, consul for the 4th time, father of the fatherland, proconsul. Gaius Sulpicius ...us, of perfectissimus rank, governor (praeses) of the province of Lusitania, always most dedicated to his majesty [set this up].
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