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LSA-631 Base for statue of Constantius I, emperor. Nicomedia (Bithynia). 293








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Nicomedia Province: Bithynia Region: Asia Minor
Details: İzmit, atrium of 'New Mosque'
Current Location: No published record
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Unknown Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Constantius I Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Colony of Nicomedia Position: Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest: 293 Latest : 293
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , III, 326 with addenda p. 976

Dörner, K. F. (ed.), Tituli Asiae Minoris, IV. Tituli Bithyniae linguis Graeca et Latina conscripti, 1. Paeninsula Bithynica praeter Chalcedonem. Nicomedia et ager Nicomedensis cum septentrionali meridianoque litore sinus Astaceni et cum lacu Sumonensi, Vienna 1978, p. 15 no. 31

INSCRIPTION
Text: Optimo benignissimoque / principi, Flavio Valerio / Constantio, nob(ilissimo) Caesari, / Germanico max(imo), cons(uli), colonia /(5) Nicomedensium d(evota) n(umini) m(aiestati) q(ue) eius.
Trans: To the best and most kindly emperor, Flavius Valerius Constantius, most noble Caesar, greatest victor over the Germans, consul. The colony of Nicomedia, devoted to his divinity and majesty, [set this up].

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