Honorific pedestal, found during reuse as building material for the Thermae Cassiorum, remembering the public tribute, by

decurion decree (members of the municipal senate) to Lucius Cornelius Bocchus, son of Lucius, member of the

equestrian order, member of the Galeria tribe, born in Salacia (Alcácer do Sal). The text engraved in the monument highlights the political curriculum of the honoured, referring the offices he occupied until the date of the ceremony:

flamen (priest of free origin, charged with rituals of the official Roman religion) of the province of

Lusitania; five times

prefect of the artisans (the official responsible, in a military context, for the technicians who integrated the legions);

military tribune (Roman army officer, with rank above centurion and below legate, the highest rank) of Augustus' eighth legion. In addition to this pedestal, seven other epigraphic monuments that refer Cornelii Bochii are known in Alcácer do Sal, Tróia and Mérida, all dated to roughly the same period. The Roman era literature also mentions an author with the same names.