ABSTRACT
An inscription housed at the National Museum of Roman Art at Merida records that Albinus, son of Albuus, made a joint dedication to Divus Augustus and Diva Augusta in his capacity as provincial priest. The newly resurrected marble pedestal at Emerita may have supported a statue or bust of the emperor which the provincial governor offered in payment of the vow to which the god had responded. In the study of Imperial processions at Augusta Emerita it is suggested that what looks to be a pedestal records that an otherwise unattested equestrian procurator, acting on behalf of some late-third-century provincial governor of Lusitania, made a dedication to Mars Augustus, apparently mentioning his renovation of the god's temple in return for his granting the vow the governor had made. Its possible relevance to imperial processions at Augusta Emerita consequently belongs in a different category of evidence to the removable imperial busts discussed in connection with the inscription of Albinus, for example.
