DiscussionBase for statue of Tarrutenius Maximilianus, vicarius of Rome; erected by his son-in-law and consul. Rome. 438. INSCRIPTIONIn ten lines. Letter height 3-5 cm. Tarrutenii. / Tarrutenio Maximiliano, v(iro) c(larissimo) / eloquentissimoque, consulari / Piceni anno aetatis nono decimo, /(5) vicario urbis Romae, legato amplis/simi senatus secundo, socero / exoptatissimo. Anicius Acilius / Glabrio Faustus, v(ir) c(larissimus), loci huius / ornator, togatam statuam /(10) libens optuli. // [on the back] Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus, / v(ir) c(larissimus), consul, dicavit. '[Statue of] Tarrutenius. To Tarrutenius Maximilianus, of clarissimus rank and most eloquent, governor (consularis) of Picenum on his nineteenth year of age, vicar of the City of Rome, twice legate of the Senate, a most longed for father-in-law. Anicius Acilius Glabrius Faustus, of clarissimus rank, embellisher of this place, gladly offered this togate statue. [on the back] Anicius Acilius Glabrius Faustus, of clarissimus rank, consul, dedicated [this].' DESCRIPTION (personal inspection) Marble base, 137.5 x 74 x 71 cm. White marble base, with mouldings on top and bottom. The epigraphic field is frambed by mouldings. It is deep, and it was cut back to make room for our inscription. The back has traces of an earlier inscription towards the top. Beneath another inscription, belonging to our dedication was carved. The left side has an urceus and the right side has a patera. PROVENANCE AND CURRENT LOCATION Our base was recorded by Pighius as found in the 'Campo Vaccino' (ie, the Roman Forum). It was certainly out of context, however. The character of the dedication, and the reference to Anicius Glabrius Faustus as 'embellisher of this forum', indicates that it was originally set up in the forum built by Faustus' father Sibidius, where one base dedicated by Faustus to his father himself (LSA-1393) and another to an ancestor (LSA-1577) were found. Our base is now in the Musei Vaticani, Galleria Chiaramonti, inv. 1442. HONORAND, AWARDED AND DATE There are no elements to date the career of Tarrutenius Maximilianus with precision. The province of Picenum suburbicarium was separated from Flaminia et Picenum annonarium in 398, and therefore his public life must be dated to the final years of the fourth or (more probably) first decades of the fifth century (PLRE II,741 Maximilianus 3). The dedication was made when his son-in-law Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus, the awarder, was consul ordinarius, in 438 (PLRE II, 452-454 Faustus 8). Main ReferenceCorpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , VI, 1767 (+p. 4755)Discussion ReferencesMartindale, J. R., The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Vol. II A.D. 395-527, Cambridge 1980, pp. 452-454 (Faustus 8) and 741 (Maximilianus 3) |
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