Base of a statue of Diocletianus set up by the fabri tignuarii

Formerly in the Villa Borghese, Rome. In view of the inscription surely from Ostia.
Date: 285 AD. W. 0.84, h. 1.25, d. 0.58.

IMP(eratori) CAES(ari) C(aio) VALERIO DIOCLETIANO PIO FELICI INVICTO AVG(usto) PONTIF(ici) MAX(imo) BRITTANNIC(o) MAX(imo) GERM(anico) MAX(imo) TRIB(unicia) POTEST(ate) II CO(n)S(uli) II P(atri) P(atriae) PROCO(n)S(uli) HONORATI ET DECVRION(es) ET NVMERVS MILITVM CALIGATORVM

To Emperor Caesar Caius Valerius Diocletianus, pious, fortunate, unconquered Augustus, highest priest, greatest victor over the British and Germanic peoples, with the tribunician power and consul for the second time, father of the fatherland, proconsul. The holders of distinction and the decurions, and the cohort of the booted soldiers.

On one of the sides is another inscription, partly chiselled-off and indistinct.

CVRA AGENTIBVS CN(aeo) SERGIO MERCVRIO M(arco) LICINIO PRIVATO TI(berio) CLAVDIO SOSIPOLE MAGISTRIS Q(uin)Q(uennalibus) LVSTRI XXIX

Poulsen 1951, cat. nr. 825. Inv. nr. 883. CIL XIV, 128. EDR115717. Photo: Poulsen Pl. LXXI.