AE 1975, 00880

Item

Text Category
Inscription: base
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
280-350
Location of Display
Africa Proconsularis: Ureu
Reference
AE 1975, 00880
Quotation
Didasi // L(ucio) Octavio Aur[eliano?] / Didasio c(larissimo) v(iro) M[3]O / civi genitali ob [sin]gu[la]/rem in protegendis [civib(us)] / fidem et paratum [er]ga [o]mn[e]s / amorem thermas [et aquam(?) corrup]/tam post diluviem [3]/to servato recte(?) [3] / propria liberalitate [ex]o[rnavit] / excoluit perfecit dedi[c]avit / bene merito civi et pa[tr]ono [splen]/didissimus ord[o et] populus [mun(icipii)] / [U]ruensium statuam [posueru]nt d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) [p(ecunia) p(ublica)]
Part of Speech
Verb (compound) (active)
Type of Thing Ornamented
Architecture: Building: Civic Building: Baths
Architecture: Infrastructure
Object/ Person Ornamented
Baths and the water source for them
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Architecture: Infrastructure
Architecture: Architectural Element
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified repairs - may include new pools, columns, pipes, etc - seems an infrastructural project
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Lucius Octavius Aurelianus Didasius
Bibliography
Lepelley 1981: 239
Notes
The people of Ureu dedicated a base and statue of Didasius in his honour, but the statue is not what is ornamented in this passage.
Item Identifier
A01651
Determination
Derived directly from text