Monument roman

The Roman monument is part of the National Firemen Museum’s permanent collection. Aurelius Frontonianus was the one who had the monument built in the roman civil settlement in Gherla, in 216 AD, during Caracalla’s reign as emperor. The gods were conjured to protect the emperor’s health and the urban civilian militia called nocturni, responsible for the public order and for extinguishing the occasional fires. The artefact was discovered at the end of the 19th century as a part of a sacred complex located in Gherla, which includes several monuments of this kind. *Sabino et Anullino co(n)[s(ulibus)] dis d(e)ab(us)q(ue) im(m)or(talibus) pro sal(ute) d(omini) n(ostri) 5 in honorem nocturno- rum Aur(elius) Fron- tonianus v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).* (”During Sabinius and Anullinus’ consulship, Aurelius Frontonianus (dedicated this monument) to the immortal gods and goddesses, as well as in honor of the emperor’s health and the nocturni; he fulfilled his pledge with pleasure and virtue”).