SEG 33.180 Statue base for Geta

Statue base for Geta

SEG 33.180 Date: 209/10 AD

[(This statue of) Emperor Caesar], [son of Lucius Septimius] Severus [Pius] Pertinax Augustus Arabicus Adiabenicus [Parthicus] Maximus Felix and of [Julia] Domna Augusta, Publius [Septimius Geta (was erected by...)] uninscribed space . . . . . . . . . ^[1]

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References:

SEG 33.180 (Translated text) (PHI)

IG II² 3416a (PHI)

Agora XVIII 265

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Images: Agora Excavations - (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base

Fr. a - Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 436a + 607)
Fr. b - Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 7436)
Fr. c - Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 808)
Fr. d - Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 436b)
Fr. e - Findspot: Agora (Ag. I 439)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This statue base was erected in honour of Geta following his promotion to the status of co-emperor with his father Septimius Severus and his older brother Caracalla in 209 AD (see Agora XV 460). On Athenian statues and dedications connected with the Severan dynasty, see SEG 34.184. In 211, a few months after their father's death, Caracalla murdered Geta and ordered a very extensive damnatio memoriae, in which his name and image were removed from public documents throughout the empire (see IG II³ 4, 1397 with notes). Since there is no sign of the erasure of Geta's name in this inscription, it is likely that the statue and base were smashed at that time. The fragments of this base were found in the southern part of the Agora, which may indicate that it was originally located on the Acropolis, like most of the other Severan statues in Athens, and rolled down the slope after it was destroyed. On Julia Domna, the mother of Caracalla and Geta, who played a prominent part in Severan dynastic representation and had received extensive cultic honours at Athens, see Agora XVI 340-341. The lost final lines probably named the person who managed the erection of the statue (cf. IG II³ 4, 1397, ll. 15-18).

Added: 28 Jul 2023
Updated: 28 Jul 2023
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