Dedication to Emperor Gallienus and his wife Salonina

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Dedication to Emperor Gallienus and his wife Salonina
Dedication to Emperor Gallienus and his wife Salonina
Sector A. Inscriptions from the city of Falerii Novi

These slabs, removed from a ruined theatre building (commemorated on the back of the central slab), were used to clad the base of a pair of statues, now lost. Gallienus (261-268 A.D.), exalted as the ruler of the world and lord of the land, undefeated Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, triumphant over the Germans and Parthians, father of the Country and proconsul, was named Falerius in some coins, as according to the first line, he was the “re-founder of the Faliscan colony” (redintegrator coloniae Faliscorum). It is likely that he and/or his mother Egnatia Mariniana were born there. The dedicants – the assembly of local administrators (decuriones) and the people – were placed under the authority of Tyrius Septimius Azizus, an imperially appointed curator. Following the death of Gallienus, the monument was demolished and the slabs were reused in the last public building still in use: the thermal baths. Indeed, by the fourth century Falerii was a dead city.