CIL 06, 01793 (p 3174, 4763)

Item

Text Category
Inscription: base
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
394
Location of Display
Author
Reference
CIL 06, 01793 (p 3174, 4763)
Quotation
/ probitate morum, indus/triaque vivendi adque utris/que litteris erudito, iam inde / a maioribus suis inlustribusq(ue) /(5) familiis civitatis patrono, cuius / opera ac beneficio recepit civitas elemen/tum, cuius meatum series temporis vetus/tasque consumserat; nam, eius cura sump/tuque, aqua modo non diist (sic, for ‘deest’) necessa/riis usibus civitatis, berum (sic, for ‘verum’) etiam in eru/endo plurimis iocis (sic, for ‘locis’) splendidissimum /(12) urbi pr(a)estitit ornamentum. Huic igitur, ob / haec insignia genera meritorum, statuam Saenen/sium ordo decrevit, adque in aeterne urbis /(15) privatis eius aedebus (sic, for‘aedibus’) conlocavit. // (on the side) Dedic(ata) Id(ib)us Aug(ustis) dd(ominis) nn(ostris) / Arcadio III et Honorio II / Augg(ustis) conss(ulibus).
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Object/ Person Ornamented
Rome
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Infrastructure
Medium/a Ornamenting
Water, accessed through constructed infrastructure (fountains, acqueducts…)
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Unspecified honorand, perhaps governor or official of/ in Saena
Notes
Currently held at the Palazzo Altemps (Iv 420809)
Item Identifier
A01150
Determination
Derived directly from text