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LSA-1234 Base for re-erected statue, possibly of Hercules. Aquileia (Venetia et Histria). Earlier to mid-fourth century








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Aquileia Province: Venetia et Histria Region: Italy north of Rome, with Corsica and Sardinia
Details: Western part of the forum
Current Location: Archaeological museum, galleria lapidaria
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 90 Width(cm): 165 Depth(cm): 80
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Hercules (?) Position: Deities, Personifications and Heroes Gender: Male
Awarder: Septimius Theodulus, governor of Venetia et Histria Position: Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest: 305 Latest : 373
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1996, 685

Maselli-Scotti, F. and C. Zaccaria, Novità epigrafiche dal foro di Aquileia, Epigrafia romana in area adriatica (Actes de la IXe rencontre franco-italienne sur l’épigraphie du monde romain, Macerata, 10-11 Novembre 1995, 113-60, Macerata 1998, 145-52 no. 2

INSCRIPTION
Text: Herculi. // [Sept(imius)] Theodulus, / [v(ir) c(larissimus), c]orr[ector], ornavit.
Trans: To Hercules (OR: [Statue] of Herculius). Septimius Theodulus, of clarissimus rank, governor (corrector), decorated [the forum with this].
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