Inscribed blocks of column, from base for statue of Diocletian, emperor. Arae Philaenorum (Tripolitania). 284-305
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Arae Philaenorum
Province:
Tripolitania
Region:
North Africa, Eastern (Tripolitania and Cyrenaica)
Details:
Gráret Gser et-Trab (Graret Quser at-Trab)
Current Location:
No recent record (where found?)
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Local stone
Re-Use?
Yes
Form:
Column
Height(cm):
c. 785
Width(cm):
90
Depth(cm):
90
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Diocletian
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Provincial governor (praeses) of Tripolitania (name lost)
Position:
Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest:
284
Latest :
305
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1954, 184 a. b
Thiel, W., Die 'Pompeius-Säule' in Alexandria und die Vier-Säulen-Monumente Ägyptens, Die Tetrarchie: Ein neues Regierungssystem und seine mediale Repräsentation (edd. D. Boschung and W. Eck), 249-322, Wiesbaden 2006, 304-10
Goodchild, R. G., Arae Philaenorum and Automalax, Papers of the British School at Rome 20, 1952, 94-110,
