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LSA-2874 Base for statue of emperor, name erased (Severus, Licinius, or Maximinus Daia). Seleucia ad Calycadnum (Isauria). 306-313








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Seleucia ad Calycadnum Province: Isauria Region: Asia Minor
Details: Found during excavations in the centre of modern Silifke in 1982/5
Current Location: Silifke museum (without published inv. no.).
OBJECT
Object: Base, for bronze statue Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 160 Width(cm): 62 Depth(cm): 52
Language: Latin Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Severus, Licinius, or Maximinus Daia Position: Emperors Gender: Male
Awarder: Flavius Severianus Position: Provincial Governors
DATE
Earliest: 306 Latest : 313
MAIN REFERENCE
L'Année épigraphique, , 1991, 1548
INSCRIPTION
Text: Beatissimo / adque (sic) indulgen-/tissimo, vere / humanissimo, / (5) [[d(omino) n(ostro) Maximino]] / semper Augusto, / Fl(avius) Severianus, v(ir) p(erfectissimus), / praes(es) prov(inciae) Is(auriae), d(evotus) n(umini) / m(aiestati)q(ue) eius.
 Trans: To the most blessed and kindest, indeed most humane, our lord Maximinus, forever Augustus; Flavius Severianus, of perfectissimus rank, governor (praeses) of the province of Isauria, devoted to his divine spirit and majesty [set this up].
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