SEG 23.130 Statue base dedicated by Sempronia Atratina and restored by Claudius

Statue base dedicated by Sempronia Atratina and restored by Claudius

SEG 23.130 Date: I: ca. 40 BC; II: 41-54 AD

Inscription I . . . (was erected by) Sempronia Atratina, daughter of [Lucius Sempronius] Atratinus, Paulla [wife of Lucius Gellius Publicola].^[1]

Inscription II Tiberius Claudius [Caesar Augustus] Germanicus, (5) benefactor of the city [freely gave] and restored (this statue).^[2]

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References:

SEG 23.130 (Translated text) (PHI)

IG II² 5179 (PHI)

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base (private), Statue base (emperor)

Findspot: Acropolis (EM 4385)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This seems to be a dedication or private honorific monument erected by Sempronia Atratina Paulla, a Roman matron. She is probably the same woman who is honoured in IG II² 4230 and I Eleusis 292. Her husband, Lucius Gellius Publicola (consul in 36 BC), was a partisan of Marcus Antonius, who fought and perhaps died at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC (T. S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic II, 1984, 399, 421, 571). Her brother Lucius Sempronius Atratinus was also a partisan of Antonius and consul in 34 BC, but he switched sides before the Battle of Actium and went on to serve as governor of Africa under Augustus (Broughton Magistrates II, 1984, 389, 402, 410, 615). [2] This second inscription indicates that this is one of seven attested Athenian monuments rededicated by the emperor Claudius (r. 41-54 AD). See IG II² 5173 with notes.

Added: 24 Jul 2026
Updated: 24 Jul 2026
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