Editor: N.Rafetseder

Text:

[I]mp(eratori) Caes(ari) G(aio) Valerio
[D]ịọcletiano Pio Fel(ici),
[in]v(icto) Aug(usto), pontif(ici) max(imo)
[tr]ib(unicia) pot(estate), co(n)s(uli) II, p(atri) p(atriae), proco(n)s(uli),
res p(ublica) Panhorm(itanorum) d(evota) n(umini) m(aiestati)q(ue) eius, d(ecreto) d(ecurionum).
(Bivona 1970)

Translation: “To Emperor Caesar Gaius Valerius Diocletianus Pius Felix, invincible Augustus, pontifex maximus, holding the tribunicia potestas, consul for the second time, pater patriae, proconsul, [dedicated by] the res publica of the Panhormitani, devoted to his divine power and majesty, by decree of the decurions”. (N.Rafetseder)

Find Spot: Palermo, via Celso

Support: limestone plaque (h. 55 x l. 56,5)

Inv. No./Current location: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, no. 3524

Dating: 285 AD (Bivona 1970)

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