Monument
- Type of monument
- Altar
- Material
- Limestone
- Description and condition
- Capital decorated with rosettas and acroteria.
- Find place
- Virovo
- Find circumstances
- Unknown
- Find context
- Unknown
- Modern location
- The mounument is located in the Virovo village cemetary. Seen by Svetlana Loma in 2016.
- Dimensions
- H. 130,W. 45,Th. 45
- Institution and inventory
- Virovo Cemetary no inv. no.
Inscribed field
- Placement of text
- Moulded inscription field. Dimensions: h. 35 cm, w. 28 cm. Letters: Good lettering. 5 cm. 4 hedera. Triangular punctuation.
Text
- Origin
- Municipium Malvesiatium
- Province
- Dalmatia
- Category
- Votive inscription
- Date
- Second half of the second century
- Dating criteria
- n/a
Edition
-
bibliography
Loma – Grbić-Nikolić 2018, 282, no. 2, fig. 4a-b. AE 2018, 1263 https://www.zotero.org/groups/370316/digital_epigraphy_in_serbia/items/collectionKey/U8R52S5N
Apparatus
1: C(- - -): C(onservatori) or C(ampestri);Translation
translation(s)
Commentary
L. 1 C(onservatori) could also be restored C(ampestri), cf. IMS 03,++ 2, 7; AE 1994, 1446. The dedicant can be identified with T. Aurelius Marcus, a veteran who set up an altar that is built into the wall of the village church in Prilipac, 3.5 km to the north of Virovo, as well as with the decurio municipii who died in Salona according to the inscription on his funerary monument set up by his sons in the village of Vranjani. All three find-spots are located within a 15 kilometre radius, in the environs of Požega. T. Aurelius Marcus was a Romanized native who received citizenship under Marcus Aurelius, probably after completing military service in the cohors II Aurelia Delmatarum, stationed near present-day Čačak (35 kilometres to the east from Požega). In the last years of Marcus Aurelius’ reign the tribune of this cohort was Tib. Claudius Gallus, later adlected by Septimius Severus to the Senate. The senator had an estate in the vicinity of Virovo as is indicated by the funerary inscription of his libertus from Arilje.
