Base for statue of Ceionius Iulianus, governor and patron of Madauros. Madauros (Africa Proconsularis). 326-333
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Madauros
Province:
Africa Proconsularis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Not specified
Current Location:
No recent record
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Height(cm):
138
Width(cm):
54
Depth(cm):
51
Language:
Text Type:
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Ceionius Iulianus
Position:
Provincial Governors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Council of Madauros (ordo Madaurensium)
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
326
Latest :
333
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1922, 16
Gsell, S., Inscriptions latines de l’Algérie, vol. I, Paris 1922 (Rome 1965), 2162
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, 133
INSCRIPTION
Text:
[Ceion]io(?) Iulia/no, [c(larissimo) v(iro), p]atrono col(oniae), / bono [a]dque prae/stanti e[t] senatoriae / (5) dignitatis ornament/[to], cuius proconsulatu / [beneficia] plurima ci/[vitas et res] publica fuerit / [consecuta, s]tatuam marm[o]/[ream pone]ndam cliens / (11) ordo Ma[da]urensium et/si impari beneficiis eius ho/norifico obsequio decre/vit, eamque Aurelii / (15) Saturninus Crescenti/anus fl(amen) p(er)p(etuus), p(atronus) c(oloniae) et Nicander / fl(amen) p(er)p(etuus), p(atronus) c(oloniae) fratres etiam atque / advectam propria li/beralitate posuerunt.
Trans:
To Ceionius Iulianus, of clarissimus rank, patron of the colony, good and outstanding, and an ornament of the senatorial order, by whose governorship (proconsulatu) the city and the community (res publica) have obtained many benefits. His client, the council (ordo) of Madauros, decreed the erection of [this] marble statue with reverent obedience, although not matching the benefits he provided. Aurelius Saturninus Cescentianus, priest in perpetuity, patron of the colony, and Aurelius Nicander, priest in perpetuity, patron of the colony, also brothers, brought it here and set it up out of their own generosity.
