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LSA-2372 Base for statue of Diocletian, emperor. Thamugadi (Numidia). 286-287








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Thamugadi Province: Numidia Region: North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details: Forum, portico
Current Location: At its findspot
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Re-Use? Other
Form: Unknown Height(cm): 116 Width(cm): 50 Depth(cm):
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Diocletian Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Colony of Thamugadi Position: Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest: 286 Latest : 287
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, no. 17882

Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, p. 448, no. 2
INSCRIPTION
Text: [[Imp(eratori) Ca[es(ari)], / C(aio) Val(erio) D[i]ocle/tiano, invicto, / pio, felici A[u]g(usto), / (5) p(ontifici) [m(aximo), tr(ibunicia) pot(estate) IIII, / p]atr[i p]atriae, / co(n)s(uli), proc[o(n)s(uli), / r(es) p(ublica) coloni]ae / Thamug(adensium), / (10) numini maies/tatiqu[e] eius / devota]]. Trans: To the emperor Caesar, Caius Valerius Diocletianus, unconquered, pious, fortunate Augustus, highest priest, holding tribunician power four times, father of the fatherland, consul, proconsul. The community (res publica) of the colony of the Thamugadenses, devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, [set this up].
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