Description: Rectangular base
(0.56
1.15
0.53) of
grey limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel. (w:
0.52 x h:
1.00)
Letters: Fourth century capitals: 0.06.
Date: CE 364-367 (reign, titulature)
Findspot:
Sabratha:
Forum, in situ within the SW angle of the Curia.
Uniform with 58 and closely related to 472,
473.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
Interpretive
Iustitia pariter ac
pietate caelesti adq(ue)
Romanae felicitatis
perpetuo fundatori
5d(omino) n(ostro) Ualentiniano Uic-
toriossimo ac totius
orbis Aug(usto) Antonius
Dracontius u(ir) c(larissimus) agens
uicem praefectorum prae-
10torio per Africanas pro-
uincias numini et
maiestati eius semper
dicatissimus
Diplomatic
IUSTITIAPARITERAC
PIETATECAELESTIADQ
ROMANAEFELICITATIS
PERPETUOFUNDATORI
5DNUALENTINIANOUIC
TORIOSSIMOACTOTIUS
ORBISAUGANTONIUS
DRACONTIUSUCAGENS
UICEMPRAEFECTORUMPRAE
10TORIOPERAFRICANASPRO
UINCIASNUMINIET
MAIESTATIEIUSSEMPER
DICATISSIMUS
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To one who is in justice and sense of duty alike heavenly, and perpetual founder of Roman good fortune, our lord Valentinian,
most victorious, and Augustus of the whole world; Antonius Dracontius, outstanding man (i.e. member of the Roman Senate), deputy for the praetorian prefects throughout the African provinces, always most devoted to his divine power and majesty.
Bibliography: Bartoccini, 1950, 32, 1 , whence AE 1950.148a; IRT, 1952, 57, whence IRT, 2009, 57; from these EDH 021889; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins, 1946 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 46.V.22)
Fig. 2. Ward-Perkins, 1947 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 47.VII.24)
