Fragmentary building dedication of porticoes to Nero
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: CE 61-62: GODOT
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Neroni Claudio diui Claudi filio Germanici nepoti Tiberi Caesaris pronepoti diui Augusti abnepoti Caesari Augusto Germanico pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate VIII imperatori [...] consuli IIII patri patriae Seruius Cornelius Serui filius Lemonia tribu Orfitus [...] quaestor diui Claudi praetor urbanus consul pontifex sodalis Augustalis proconsul patronus dedicauit Publio Silio Celere legato [...] [...] columnas et super columnia et super ostia in tribus [...] Ithymbal Arinis filius Sabinus Tapapius flamen diui Augusti sufetu [...] faciendas curauit idemque curator pecuniae publicae eas porticus [...]

[^a1: at a.3: supercolumnia et superostia [: on the stone there are in fact stops between super et columnia, and between super and ostia.]]

To Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, son of deified Claudius, grandson of Germanicus, great grandson of Tiberius Caesar, great great grandson of deified Augustus, chief priest, holding tribunician power for the eighth time, acclaimed victor ? times, consul four times, father of the country; Servius Cornelius Orfitus, son of Servius, of the Roman voting tribe Lemonia, [...] quaestor of the deified Claudius, urban praetor, consul, priest, sodalis[^1] of the cult of the Augusti, proconsul, patron, dedicated it, Publius Silvius Celer [...] his legate [...] Ithymbal Sabinus Tapapius, son of Arin, flamen[^2] of the deified Augustus, sufete [...], saw to the erection of the columns and the apertures above them and above these openings, in three [...], and also as curator of public funds [...] those porticoes [...]

[^1: Roman priest]

[^2: local priest]

Ser. Cornelius Scipio Salvidienus Orfitus: PIR C 1444, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/49729.

P. Silius Celer: PIR S 719; https://pir.bbaw.de/id/12481.