Base for statue, probably of the 'Eternity' (Aeternitas) of Julian. Calama (Africa Proconsularis). 361-363
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Calama
Province:
Africa Proconsularis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Found in a house of the market place
Current Location:
Guelma, museum
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Height(cm):
125
Width(cm):
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Aeternitas of Julian ?
Position:
Deities, Personifications and Heroes
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Ordo of Calama, with Basilius Cirrenianus Restitutus, sacerdotalis and curator
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
361
Latest :
363
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, no. 5338
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, no. 17488
Gsell, S., Inscriptions latines de l’Algérie, vol. I, Paris 1922 (Rome 1965), no. 253
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, p. 96, no. 3
INSCRIPTION
Text:
[[[Aeter]n[itati ?]]] / [[[d(omini) n(ostri) I]uliani]], / perpetui victo/ris, semper Aug(usti); / (5) ordo Kalamensis / splendidus, cum / Basil(io) Cirreniano Res/ti[t]uto, sacerdotali p(rovinciae) A(fricae), / cur(atore) rei p(ublicae), dedicavit.
Trans:
To the Eternity of our lord Flavius Claudius Iulianus, forever victorious, eternal Augustus, the splendid city council of Kalama, with Basilius Cirrenianus Restitutus, priest of the province of Africa, curator of the community, dedicated [this].
