State of preservation:
good, only the right corner of the inscription is chipped;
Dimensions:
102 x 100 x 20 cm, h (letters) = 5 - 5.5 cm;
Description:
the piece represents only the inscribed front part of the monument, the quadrilateral frame was shaved when the stone was reused as a construction material in the modern era;
Inscription:
Q (uinto) Marcio Turb [oni] / Frontoni Publicio / Severo praef (ecto) praet (orio) / Imp (eratoris) caes (aris) Aelii Traiani / Hadriani aug (usti) p (ater) p (atriae) / colon ( ia) Ulp (ia) Traian (a) Aug (usta) / Dacica Sarmizegetus (a) Literary translation: To Quintus Marcius Turbo Fronto Publicius Severus prefect of the praetorium (commander of the bodyguard) of the emperor Caesar Aelius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, father of the fatherland Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa (puts this monument to him).
Place of discovery:
it certainly comes from the Sarmizegetusa Colony and not from Tibiscum as the IDR authors suggested;
Observations, dating:
the famous figure of equestrian rank (also mentioned in the official chronicle Historia Augusta) is sent to Dacia, at the beginning of the reign of Emperor Hadrian, at the head of a vexillation of battle to restore the situation in the province following the uprising triggered by the death of Emperor Trajan . The honorary inscription is placed by the management of the main urban center of the province of Dacia, the colony Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa as a thank you to its savior and dates from the years 118-120 AD;
Place of storage:
Banat National Museum Timisoara, inv.inv: IV 6341;
Bibliography and databases:
Ioan Piso, Fasti prov. Daciae (I), Ed. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn, 1993, pp. 30-33; UEL 15197; HD 046495; EDCS-26600746
