Two fragments from base for statue of Constantine I (or just possibly Constantine II), emperor. Aquileia (Venetia et Histria). 306-340.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Aquileia
Province:
Venetia et Histria
Region:
Italy north of Rome, with Corsica and Sardinia
Details:
Found in 1983 during works in large baths north of amphitheatre
Current Location:
Museo Archeologico di Aquileia
OBJECT
Object:
Base
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Rectangular
Height(cm):
91
Width(cm):
83
Depth(cm):
63
Language:
Latin
Text Type:
Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Constantine I
Position:
Emperors
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Septimius Aelianus and Flavius Mucianus, overseers of the works on the Constantinian baths
Position:
Lower-ranking Imperial Officials
DATE
Earliest:
306
Latest :
340
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 2004, 1008 =AE 2001, 597=AE 1996, 694
Rieß, W., Konstantin und seine Söhne in Aquileia, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 135, 2001, 267-83, 271-2 no. 2
INSCRIPTION
Text:
[Restitutori operum publi]/corum, [d(omino) n(ostro) Fl(avio) Constantino], / maximo, [pio, felici, victori?,] / semper Augusto. /(5) Septimius Aelianus, v(ir) c(larissimus) et F[l(avius)] / Mucianus, v(ir) p(erfectissimus), p(rae)p(ositi) operis / [f]elicium thermarum / [Co]nstantinia<na>rum (sic for Constantinianarum), pieta[ti] / [eius] semper dicatissi[mi].
Trans:
To the restorer of public works, our lord Flavius Constantinus, the greatest, pious, fortunate, victorious(?), forever Augustus. Septimius Aelianus, of clarissimus rank, and Flavius Mucianus, of perfectissimus rank, overseers of the works on the fortunate Constantinian baths, most dedicated to his piety [set this up].
