224 Robert L. Mowery the year 45/46. The wording of this first section is conventional; various other inscriptions created during Claudius’ principate refer to him in essentially the same manner, varying only in the specific offices or honors that are mentioned (5). The second section of this inscription indicates that Caristanius and his children had made a vow to an unidentified deity on behalf of Claudius’ safety (incolumitas) and victory (victoria) during the invasion of Britain (6). Claudius left Rome for Britain during the year 43, and he returned to Rome in triumph sometime during the initial months of 44 (7). Caristanius presumably would not have learned about Claudius’ safe return until some later date in the year 44 (8). The third section of this inscription claims that Caristanius fulfilled his vow by providing four benefactions: a statue, games, sacrifices, and venatio (9). 1. The inscription is inscribed on a statue base. This base, which is 2.51 meters long, ranks among the largest statue bases found at Pisidian Antioch, and the manner in which the top and bottom were finished (anathyrose) suggests that the statue stood on a plinth that rested on the base which rested in turn on another block. Given the size of the base and the use of both a plinth and another block, it must be assumed that the statue was quite large. After rejecting the possibility that the statue was Victoria Britannica, Christol, Drew-Bear and Taslialan argue that it must have been a more than life-like repres- entation of Claudius, and they wonder if portions of this huge statue may be found among the unidentified fragments of large statues at Pisidian Antioch (10). 2. Caristanius also provided ludi iuvenales, games involving youth. Games involving youth had been part of the dedication ritual of (5) Cf. CHRISTOL – DREW-BEAR – TASLIALAN, “L’empereur”, 3. Claudius assumed the name Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus at the beginning of his principate. (6) Lines 6-10 of the inscription plus the first word of line 11. (7) See H. HALFMANN, Itinera principum. Geschichte und Typologie der Kaiserreisen im Römischen Reich (Stuttgart 1986) 172-173; LEVICK, Claudius, 137-146; G. WEBSTER, The Roman Invasion of Britain (London – New York 1993) 94-110. (8) There is no evidence that he was a member of the invasion force or that he had recently traveled to Rome. (9) The final two words of line 11 and lines 12-13 of the inscription. (10) “L’empereur”, 3, 17-18. For a survey of the surviving pieces, see D.M. ROBINSON, “Roman Sculptures from Colonia Caesarea (Pisidian Antioch)”, Art Bulletin 9 (1926) 41-45.