Base for statue of a young boy Octemus. Nicomedia (Bithynia). Fourth to fifth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Nicomedia
Province:
Bithynia
Region:
Asia Minor
Details:
Nicomedia (İzmit), hill where martyrdom of Dorotheus, Gorgonius, and others took place
Current Location:
No recent record
OBJECT
Object:
Unknown
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Unknown
Height(cm):
83
Width(cm):
53
Depth(cm):
Language:
Bilingual
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Octemus
Position:
Family Members
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Flavius Maximinus
Position:
Family Members
DATE
Earliest:
330
Latest :
500
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , III suppl. II, 14188
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. 84 no. 367
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Φλ(άουιος) Μαξιμῖνος, σκουτ[ά]/ριος σινάτωρ, ἀνέστη/σα τὴν στίλην τῷ υἱῷ /μου Ὀκτίμῳ, ζήσαντι / (5) ἔτη εʹ, ἡμέρας ιεʹ·, τμηθὶς / ὑπὸ ἰατροῦ ἐμαρτύρη/σεν. Fla(vius) Maximinus, scu/tarius sinator, levavi sta/tu(am) filio meo Octemo, vixit an/nos V, dies XV; precisus a medico / hic postus (sic) est ad martyres.
Trans:
Flavius Maximinus, scutarius of the rank of senator, erected the statue to my son Octemus who lived 5 years, 15 days. Cut by a doctor, he died as a martyr. Flavius Maximinus, scutarius of the rank of senator, erected the statue to my son Octemus who lived 5 years, 15 days. Cut by a doctor, he is placed near the martyrs.
