Base for statue (subject unstated), erected by Calavius Germanius, priest and curator . Bisica Lucana (Africa Proconsularis). Fourth to earlier fifth century
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Bisica Lucana
Province:
Africa Proconsularis
Region:
North Africa, Western (from Byzacena westwards)
Details:
Ruins of Bisica Lucana
Current Location:
No recent record
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Unknown
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
110
Width(cm):
55
Depth(cm):
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Not stated
Position:
Gender:
Unknown
Awarder:
Calavius Germanianus, priest and curator
Position:
Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest:
300
Latest :
439
MAIN REFERENCE
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VIII, 12299
Lepelley, C., Les cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire, t. 2, Notices d'histoire municipale, Paris 1981, 86 no. 3
INSCRIPTION
Text:
Pro felicitate / temporum, L(ucius)/ Calavius Ger/manianus, ex / tog(ato), fl(amen) p(erpetuus), II cur(ator) / r(ei) p(ublicae), posuit.
Trans:
For the blessedness of the times, Lucius Calavius Germanianus, former lawyer (i>togatus, priest in perpetuity, for the second time curator of the city, set [this] up.
