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LSA-1536 Base for statue of Betitius Perpetuus signo Arzygius. Rome. 312-324.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Roma Province: Roma Region: Rome (including Ostia and Portus)
Details: Found in vicinity of church Sant'Andrea al Quirinale ( via del Quirinale) in 1888
Current Location: Rome, Palazzo del Quirinale, garden (without published inv. no.)
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Marble Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Bilingual Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Betitius Perpetuus Position: Provincial Governors Gender: Male
Awarder: Provincials of Sicily Position: Provinces and provincial councils
DATE
Earliest: 312 Latest : 324
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 31961

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , IG XIV, 1078a

Moretti, L., Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae, Rome 1968-1990, no. 60

INSCRIPTION
Text: Αrzygii. / τὸν ἁπάσαϛ τὰϛ πόλειϛ τηϛ Σικε/λίαϛ ἀνανεώσαντα καὶ τὰ βου/λευτήρια καλῶϛ διοικήσαντα/ (5) τάϛ τε λιτουργείαϛ ἰδίαιϛ ἐπινοί/αιϛ ἐπικουφίσαντα καὶ ἐν πᾶσι την/ ἐπάρχιον (sic) εὐεργετήσαντα Βετίτιον/ Περπέτουον τὸν λαμπρότατον/ πάτρωνα αἱ Σικελῶν Βουλαὶ/ (10) καὶ ὁ δῆμοϛ ανδριάντι τὸν/ εὐεργέτην μετὰ διέτι/αν τῇϛ πράξεωϛ διὰ πρεσ/βευτῶν ῾Ροδίνου καὶ Ιουλι[α]/νοῦ τῶν διασημοτάτων/ (15) δεκαπρώτων ημείψαντο. Trans: [Statue] of Arzygius. To him who renewed all cities of Sicily, and who kept the councils well, who relieved the civic duties with his own insight and did benefactions in the entire province, Betitius Perpetuus, of clarissimus rank, their patron; the councils of the Sicilians and the people rewarded with a statue their benefactor, after two years of his deeds, through the legates Rodinus and Iulianus, both of perfectissimus rank, decemprimi.
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