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LSA-2854 Lost fragment of dedication to Valens, emperor, probably from base for statue. Nicomedia (Bithynia). 364-378








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Nicomedia Province: Bithynia Region: Asia Minor
Details: Recorded in the sanctuary of St Anne in 17th century
Current Location: No recent record (lost?)
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Unknown Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Valens Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Name lost Position: Awarder Unknown or Uncertain
DATE
Earliest: 364 Latest : 378
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1998, 1285

Grélois, J.P. (ed.), Dr. John Covel voyages en Turquie, 1675 - 1677 : texte établi, annoté et traduit par Jean-Piere Grélois avec une préface de Cyril Mango (1998) (Réalités byzantines, 6), Paris 1998, 383 no. 57

INSCRIPTION
Text: ---/ [---clemen]tissimo / [principi ac rectori t]otius orbi<s> / [domino nost]ro Valenti / [victori sem]per Aug(usto) / [---] ++++ SVCPRES / [---] ++++NS VI / [---] ++++RVM / [---] ++++TVS Trans: To the most clement emperor and ruler of the whole world, our lord Valens, victor, always Augustus.
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