Base for statue of Valens, emperor. Sabratha (Tripolitania). 364-367
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Sabratha
Province:
Tripolitania
Region:
North Africa, Eastern (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica)
Details:
Forum, in the Southwest angle of the Curia
Current Location:
In situ
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Local stone
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
115
Width(cm):
63
Depth(cm):
56
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Valens
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Antonius Dracontius
Position:
Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest:
364
Latest :
367
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1950, 148 b
Stichel, R. H. W., Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ende der Antike, Roma 1982, p. 79, no. 27
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, p. 376, no. 4
Reynolds, J. M. & J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania. In collaboration with S. Aurigemma, R. Bartoccini, G. Caputo, R. Goodchild, P. Romanelli, Roma 1952, no. 58
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Iustitia pariter ac pieta/te caelesti, adq(ue) Romana[e] / felicitatis perpetuo / fundatori, d(omino) n(ostro) / (4) Valenti, victori/osissimo ac totius or/bis Augusto, / Antonius Dracon/tius, v(ir) c(larissimus), agens vicem / (9) praefectorum prae/torio per Africanas / provincias, numini e[t] / maiestati eius semper dic[a]/tissimus.
Trans:
To one who is in justice and sense of duty alike heavenly, and perpetual founder of Roman good fortune, our lord Valens, most victorious and Augustus of the whole world; Antonius Dracontius, of clarissimus rank, deputy for the praetorian prefects throughout the African provinces, always most devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, [set this up].
