Base for statue of local notable. Territory of Sicilibba (Africa Proconsularis). 383
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Sicilibba
Province:
Africa Proconsularis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Discovered 30 km SE of Tunis, on ancient road from Carthago to Theveste, near cemetery of Sidi Ali Ra Elleghlem
Current Location:
Museum of Utica
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Local stone
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Unknown
Position:
Benefactors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Unknown
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
383
Latest :
383
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1957, 72
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, 163
INSCRIPTION
Text:
[---]IL / [omnibus hono]ribus meritis / [---]que constructis e[t] / [---]fabricat[is? ] VL /(5) [---]sites pro AN[---] / [cic?]i vico Bobio fl(aminis) p(er)p(etui) et v[ici?] / civis perpetuam sta-/tuam decreto condito / et a Flavio Eusignio /(10) v(iro) c(larissimo) amplissimo pro-/consule provinciae / Africae confirma-/to conlocari fece-/[runt].
Trans:
(...) having been worthy of (all honours) (…) constructed and (…) built (…) in vicus Bobius, of a priest in perpetuity and a citizen of the vicus, they ordered that the perpetual statue, founded by a decree and confirmed by Flavius Eusignius, of clarissimus rank, most splendid governor (proconsul) of the province of Africa, be set up (transl. C. Machado).
