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LSA-2067 Base for statue of Diocletian, emperor. Panormus (Sicilia). 285.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Panormus Province: Sicilia Region: Italy south of Rome, with Sicily
Details: Uncertain provenance
Current Location: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale
OBJECT
Object: Base Material: Unknown Re-Use? Unknown
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): Width(cm): Depth(cm):
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Diocletian Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: City of Panormus Position: Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest: 285 Latest : 285
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , X, 7282

Bivona, L. , Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Palermo 1970, n. 24

Raepsaet-Charlier, M. T., 'Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo', Latomus 33, Brussels 1974, 126
INSCRIPTION
Text: [I]mp(eratori) Caes(ari) G(aio) (sic) Valerio / [Di]ocletiano, pio, fel(ici), / [in]v(icto) Aug(usto), pontif(ici) max(imo), / [tr]ib(unicia) pot(estate), co(n)s(uli) II, p(atri) p(atriae), proco(n)s(uli), /(5) [res p(ublica)] Panhorm(itanorum), d(evota) n(umini) m(aiestati)q(ue) / eius d(ecreto) d(ecurionum).

 Trans: To the emperor Caesar Caius Valerius Diocletianus, pious, fortunate, unconquered Augustus, highest priest (pontifex maximus), holding tribunician power, consul for the second time, father of the fatherland, proconsul; the city (res publica) of Panhormus, devoted to his divine spirit and majesty, by a decree of the councillors [set this up].
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