Marble slab of Pharasmanes

Marble slab of Pharasmanes
Material Marble
Size 795 x 942
Writing Latin
Created 141 AD
Period/culture Roman Empire
Kingdom of Iberia
Place Ostia Antica
Present location Germany (private collection)

The Marble slab of Pharasmanes (Georgian: ფარსმანის მარმარილოს ფილა) is a fragmentary marble slab of Fasti Ostienses with Latin inscriptions found in Ostia Antica, near Ancient Rome.[1] The slab inscription memorialises a state visit of King Pharasmanes II of Iberia[2] to Rome with his son and wife upon invitation of Emperor Antoninus Pius,[3][4][5] the visit also recorded into the History of Rome by Cassius Dio.[6] The inscription is dated 141-144[3] or 142 AD,[5] though recently it's more firmly dated to 141 AD to the consulship of namesake grandfather of Lucius Annius Fabianus who is mentioned in the inscription as FABIANVS.[7] Additionally, Cyril Toumanoff instead of Pharasmanes II, identifies this Pharasmanes as King Pharasmanes III of Iberia, who was Pharasmanes II's grandson.[8]

Inscription

“

PHARASMAN[ES REX IBERORVM CVM FILIO]
E ET VXORE PHR[CVI IMP(ERATOR) ANTONINVS AVG(VSTVS) REGNVM]
REDDIDIT
Pharasman[es, the king of Iberia with the son]
and his wife Phr[to whom the emp[eror] Antoninus Aug[ustus], the kingdom]
restored.[9][10]

 ”

References

  1. ↑ Hekster, Schmidt-Hofner & Witschel, p. 134
  2. ↑ Temporini, Haase & Vogt, pp. 230-231-232
  3. 1 2 Vidman, p. 124
  4. ↑ Kuhoff, pp. 252-255
  5. 1 2 Hekster, Schmidt-Hofner & Witschel, p. 133
  6. ↑ Petersen & Wachtel, p. 133
  7. ↑ Temporini, Haase & Vogt, p. 231
  8. ↑ Toumanoff, p. 17
  9. ↑ Petersen & Wachtel, p. 134
  10. ↑ Vidman, p. 154

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Herbert Nesselhauf (1958) Ein neues fragment der Fasten von Ostia, Athenaeum 36, pp. 219-228
  • Regula Frei Stolba, Hans Wolfgang Lieb, Michael Alexander Speidel (1995) Römische Inschriften - Neufunde, Neulesungen und Neuinterpretationen: Festschrift für Hans Lieb zum 65. Geburtstag dargebracht von seinen Freunden und Kollegen, p. 96
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