DiscussionBase for statue of Constantius I, emperor. Augusta Treverorum (Belgica II). 293-305 INSCRIPTIONIn ten lines: Indulgentissimo / d(omino) n(ostro) Flavio Val(erio) / Constantio / nobilissimo {C} / (5) Caes(ari) Valerius / Concordius / v(ir) p(erfectissimus) dux devo-/tus numini / mai{i}estati-/que eorum. 'To our most clement lord Flavius Valerius Constantius, most noble Caesar. Valerius Concordius, of perfectissimus rank, devoted to their divine spirit and majesty [set this up].' DESCRIPTION (from CIL XIII) Statue base. No measurements are published. Hirschfeld and Zangemeister who recorded the inscription for CIL in 1904 noted traces of red colour in the letters (litteris rubricatis). PROVENANCE AND CURRENT LOCATION The inscription was found in the garden of the 'Kloster der Ewigen Anbetung' (monastery of eternal worship) in 1876 during work on a railway line. This is the area of the Roman circus; the inscription was possibly originally set up there. It is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. HONORAND, AWARDER AND DATE Constantius I, the honorand, was Caesar 293-305. Valerius Concordius, the awarder was a high ranking military officer of the boarder troops (dux), most probably a dux Germaniae primae (PLRE I Concordius 4). FURTHER DISCUSSION The plural eorum (line 8) probably refers to a majority of dedications set up at the same time by Concordius, probably to the four tetrarchs. Main ReferenceCorpus Inscriptionum Latinarum; , XIII 3672Discussion ReferencesGundel, H.G., „Devotus Numini Maiestatique eius“, Epigraphica. Rivista Italiana di Epigrafia, 15, Milano 1953, 128-50 Jones, A. H. M. et al., The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire. Vol. I 260-395, Cambridge et al. 1971 (1975), |
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