Base for statue of Diocletian, emperor. Lauriacum (Noricum Ripense). 284-305
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Lauriacum
Province:
Noricum Ripense
Region:
North Balkans and Danube provinces
Details:
Found 1960 in the area of the principia of the legionary camp of Lauriacum
Current Location:
Linz, Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Local stone
Re-Use?
No
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
31
Width(cm):
26
Depth(cm):
12
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Diocletian
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Unknown (name lost)
Position:
Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest:
284
Latest :
305
MAIN REFERENCE
Inscriptionum lapidariarum Latinarum provinciae Norici usque ad annum MCMLXXXIV repertarum. Indices (ILLPRON indices) / composuerunt Manfredus Hainzmann et Petrus Schubert, Berlin 1986, 964
Alföldy, G., Eine Diokletiansinschrift aus Lauriacum, Jahrbuch des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts 47, 1964/65, Beiblatt 207-218,
... to the restorer of public freedom, our best and most powerful lord, and above all earlier emperors most pious and most clement, Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus, unconquered Augustus ...
