Marble of Thorigny

Base of a statue in sandstone (and not in Marble) discovered with Old (and not with Thorigny) in the Department of the Apple-brandy. The engraved inscriptions explain the political career of a Gallo-Roman high-ranking person, Titus Sennius Sollemnis. This stone discovered in 1580 is the principal document epigraphic of Normandy.

In 238, the Conseil of Gaules chooses to raise a statue in the honor of one of its members Titus Sennius Sollemnis with Aregenua , city of which he was magistrate. One engraved on three faces of his base the name of the person honoured like his career. Titus Sennius Sollemnis fills initially of the municipal functions with Aregenua ( Duovir , Augure) before exerting provincial loads: it belonged to the delegation the notable ones that the cities of Gaulle sent annually to Lyon, capital of the province, to celebrate the imperial worship. The delegates of the cities chose it like large priest of Rome and Auguste into 220 after J. - C.

The text also learns to us into which notable point this Gallic was integrated into the Empire. Its network of friends (governors, military Powerful orator) bound it to the Roman leading class. By financing the end of work of the thermal baths of Aregenua and by offering four days of spectacle of gladiators, it showed perfect a évergète.

The stone was redécouverte in the castle of the Matignon to Torigni-sur-Vire, from where its name. Very damaged, it is preserved today at Saint-Lo.

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