Base for statue of Constantine I, emperor. Cirta (Numidia). 314
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Cirta
Province:
Numidia
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Found in a house in the Kasbah
Current Location:
No recent record
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Re-Use?
Other
Form:
Height(cm):
42
Width(cm):
90
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Constantine I
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Valerius Paulus, governor of Numidia
Position:
Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest:
314
Latest :
315
MAIN REFERENCE
Pflaum H.-G., Inscriptions latines de l'Algérie. 2, Inscriptions de la confédération cirtéenne, de Cuicul et de la tribu des Suburbures. [1, Rusicade et région de Rusicade, Cirta, Castellum celtianum, Caldis, Castellum tidditanorum], Paris, 1957, no. 582
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, p. 389, no. 3
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Triumphatori omnium gentium ac domitori universaru[m factionum], / [qu]i libertatem tenebris servitutis oppressam sua felici vi[ctoria(?)] / [nova] luce inluminavit, [d(omino)] n(ostro) Flavio Valerio Constant[ino], / Maximo, Pio, Felici, Invicto Aug(usto). / [---] Va[l(erius?) Paulus, v(ir) p(erfectissimus)], p(raeses) p(rovinciae) N(umidiae), numini maiestatique eius devota [mente dicatus].
Trans:
To the triumphant victor over all tribes and tamer of all factions, who, by his happy victory, illumined with new light the freedom obscured by the darkness of servitude, our lord, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, the greatest, pious, fortunate, unconquered Augustus. ... Valerius (?) Paulus, of perfectissimus rank, governor (praeses) of the province of Numidia, dedicated, with a devoted mind, to his divine spirit and majesty, [set this up].
