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Significance
Inscription Type: 
Benefaction
Benefaction Type(s): 
Spectacle: Gladiatorial Shows
Dedicator: 
Lucius Licinius Abascantius
Location: 
Castulo (Modern Find Spot: Linares)
Catalog Info
Modern Biblio: 
R. Contreras y Á. D'Ors, "Miscelánea epigráfica", Emerita XLV/1, 1977, pp. 7-17 y lám. 3; S. Mariner Bigorra, "Basa de una estatua de Antonino Pío, dedicada en Cástulo el 154 d. C.", en: J.M. Blázquez et al., Cástulo II, Madrid, 1979, pp. 407-415; CILA III, 84; GÓMEZ-PANTOJA, J. L. (2009) : Epigrafia anfiteatrale dell’Occidente romano, VII: Baetica Lusitania Hispania Citerior, Roma, cat. n. 13
Corpus: 
AE 1976, 351; AE 1978, 439; HEP 5, 1995, 424
HE Record Number: 
13771
Date Start (c.): 
154 c.
Date End (c.): 
154 c.
Reign: 
Details
Key Phrases: 
dono dedit; ex indulgentia splendidissimi ordinis; statuam; accepto loco
Other Notes About the Text: 

found in 1972 in excavations; reused in exterior wall of supposed thermal complex; in dedicating statue to Antoninus Pius also gave games in theater; ob honorem seviratus. Benefaction Type Details: { benefaction_details_2: 'theatrical shows', benefaction_details_3: 'statue of Antoninus Pius', }.