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LSA-2306 Base for statue to patron of senatorial rank. From Pupput (Byzacena). 282








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Pupput Province: Byzacena Region: North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details: Uncertain provenance
Current Location: Tunis, Musée du Bardo
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Local stone Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 155 Width(cm): 60 Depth(cm): 45
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Caelius Severus Position: Civic Office-Holders Gender: Male
Awarder: Ordo Position: Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest: 282 Latest : 282
MAIN REFERENCE
Ben Abdallah, Z. B., Catalogue des inscriptions latines païenne du Musée du Bardo, Rome 1986, n. 418

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, 24095
INSCRIPTION
Text: Thoraci. / Mirae integritatis et / innocentiae inimita/bilis exempli viro, / Caelio Severo, v(iro) c(larissimo), patricio, / consulari, cur(atori) r(ei) p(ublicae) et patrono / col(oniae) Puppit(anae), qui solus sua libera/litate forum vetustate conlap/sum cum aedibus [et capi]/tolio et curia meliori cultu / restituit et dedicavit. / [Ordo Puppit(anorum) patr]ono perpetuo. // Dedicata VIII Kal(endas) Iunias / Imp(eratore) [P[rob]o]] Aug(usto) V et Victorino co(n)s(ulibus). Trans: [Statue of] Thoracius. To a man of remarkable integrity and rectitude, an inimitable example, Caelius Severus, of clarissimus rank, patrician, of consular rank, curator of the city and patron of the colony of Pupput, who alone with his own generosity restored to a better condition and dedicated the forum, with its buildings, capitol and council chamber (curia), decayed by old age. The councillors (ordo) of Pupput [set this up] to their perpetual patron. Dedicated on the 8th day before the Kalends of June, in the consulship of the emperor Augustus Probus, for the fifth time, and of Victorinus.
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