'Fortuna Victrix', the goddess of Victorius Fortune
Position:
Deities, Personifications and Heroes
Gender:
Female
Awarder:
Iulius Rusticianus, civis et curator
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
293
Latest :
294
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, 2590
Gsell, S., Inscriptions latines de l’Algérie, vol. I, Paris 1922 (Rome 1965), 179
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, 91-2 no. 2
INSCRIPTION
Text:
[For]tunam victricem, cum simulacris Victoriarum, / [ex] infrequenti et inculto loco in ista sede, priv[ato?] / [sumptu?, proco]nsulato quarto insignis Aureli Aristobuli, [viri clarissimi] / et ornat[iss]i[m]i, provisione gloriosi Macrini Sos[siani, viri clarissimi], / leg(ati) quarto. Iulius Rusticia[nus], / [ci]vis et cur(ator) Kalamensium splendidi[ssimae coloniae], / [---]VP[--- tran]st[ulit ---] et locavit [---].
Trans:
The [statue of the] Victorious Fortune, with the statues of victories, [was moved] from an abandoned and neglected place, into this place, with (private funds?), in the fourth (year of the) governorship (proconsulatu) of the distinguished Aurelius Aristobulus, of clarissimus rank and most distinguished, through the foresight of the glorious Macrinus Sossianus, of clarissimus rank, legate for the fourth time. Iulius Rusticianus, citizen and curator of the splendid colony of Kalama (…) moved and placed (…).
