Base for statue of unstated subject. Thubursicu Numidarum (Africa Proconsularis). 361-362
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Thubursicu Numidarum
Province:
Africa Proconsularis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Found re-used in wall of late antique fortress of Ksar el Kebir
Current Location:
No recent record
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
106
Width(cm):
39
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Unstated
Position:
Gender:
Unknown
Awarder:
Atilius Theodotus, legate
Position:
Officials of Governors
DATE
Earliest:
361
Latest :
362
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1914, 242
Gsell, S., Inscriptions latines de l’Algérie, vol. I, Paris 1922 (Rome 1965), 1276
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, 212 no. 5
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Felicissimo s(a)eculo / d(omini) n(ostri) Iuliani victo-/ris ac triumphatoris / Augusti /(5) proconsulatu Hermo-/geniani c(larissimi) v(iri) Atilius / Theodotus v(ir) c(larissimus) legatus / eius forum novum / quod instituit perfecit /(10) ac dedicavit addit(is) / columnis et statuis / exornavit.
Trans:
In the most blessed times of our lord Julian, victor and triumphant Augustus, in the governorship (proconsulatu) of Hermogenianus, of clarissimus rank, his legate Atilius Theodotus, of clarissimus rank, completed the new forum which he founded and dedicated [it]having equipped [it] with columns, and decorated [it] with statues.
