Marble statue base for Praetextata, Atrium Vestae, post 92 CE
Placed in a dumping area on the west end of the Atrium courtyard, near the Temple of Vesta (see Atrium Plan #1), these inscribed marble statue bases, dating from the second to the fourth century CE, were destined for the same fate as the Vestal statues, to be ground into marble dust. Although the inscriptions no longer identify the chief priestesses with which they are now paired, they are valuable in that they name and sometimes preserve the dates and associations of classical women who attained the eminence of Virgo Vestalis Maxima. The originals or copies of 36 statue bases survive (28 were found in the Atrium, 2 on the Palatine, and 6 elsewhere in Rome); it is not known how many monuments once stood here, as several Maximae (Coelia Claudiana, Terentia Flavula, Flavia Publicia) received more than one commemoration. Scroll down to view the extant statue bases and inscriptions on display in the Atrium courtyard, arranged chronologically (see List of Vestals).
For additional Companion texts about the Vestals, see Occia (Tacitus'Annales), Postumia and Tarpeia (Livy's Ab Urbe Condita), Virgo Vestae (Gellius' Noctes Atticae). For further information on the Vestals, consult Lindner (2015), Parker (2004), Staples (1998), Takacs (2008), and Wildfang (2006) in the Bibliography.
PRAETEXTATAE CRASSI FIL[iae]
V[irgini] V[estali] MAXIMAE
C[aius] IVLIVS CRETICVS
A SACRIS
NVMISIAE L[uci] F[iliae]
MAXIMILLAE
V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
C[aius] HELVIDIVS MYSTICVS
DEVOTVS BENEFICIIS EIVS
TERENTIAE / FLAVOLAE
V[irgini] V[estali]
MAXIMAE
CN[aeus] STATILIVS
MENANDER
FICTOR
V[irginum] V[estalium]
CN[aei] STATILI
CERDONIS
FICTORIS
V[irginum] V[estalium]
ALVMNVS
TERENTIAE
FLAVVLAE
V[irgini] V[estali]
MAX[imae] SORORI
TERENTIVS GENTIAN-
VS FL[amen] DIALIS V[ir] C[larissimus] PR[aetor]
TVT[elaris] CVM POMPONIA
PAETINA VXORE ET
LOLLIANO GENTIA[no]
FILIO FRA[tris]
Marble statue base for Flavia Publicia, Atrium Vestae, 247 CE
FLAVIAE L[uci] FIL[iae]
PVBLICIAE V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
SANCTISSIMAE PIISSIMAEQ[ue]
CVIVS SANCTISSIMAM ET
RELIGIOSAM CVRAM SACROR[um]
QVAM PER OMNES GRADVS 
SACERDOTII LAVDABILI ADMI-
NISTRATIONE OPERATVR NVMEN
SANCTISSIMAE VESTAE MATRIS
COMPROBAVIT
AEMILIA ROGATILLA C[larissima] F[emina] SORORIS FIL[ia]
CVM MINVCIO HONORATO MARCELLO
AEMILIANO C[larissimo] P[uero] FILIO SVO
OB EXIMIAM EIVS ERGA SE
PIETATEM
Marble statue base for Flavia Publicia, Atrium Vestae, 247-57 CE
FLAVIAE L[uci] F[iliae] PVBLICIAE
RELIGIOSAE
SANCTITATIS V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
CVIVS EGREGIAM MORVM
DISCIPLINAM ET
IN SACRIS PERITISSIMAM
OPERATIONEM MERITO
RESPUBLICA IN DIES
FELICITER SENTIT
VLPIVS VERVS ET AVREL[ius]
TITVS | [centuriones] | DEPVTATI
OB EXIMIAM EIVS ERGA SE
BENIVOLENTIAM
G[ratis?] P[osuerunt]
FL[aviae] PVBLICIAE V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
SANCTISSIMAE AC RELIGIOSIS-
SIMAE QVAE PER OMNES GRADVS
SACERDOTII APVT DIVINA ALTARIA
OMNIVM DEORVM ET AD AETERNOS IGNES
DIEBVS NOCTIBVSQVE PIA MENTE RITE
DESERVIENS MERITO AD HVNC
LOCVM CVM AETATE PERVENIT
BAREIVS ZOTICVS CVM FLAVIA
VERECVNDA SVA OB EXIMIAM EIVS
ERGA SE BENIBOLENTIAM PRAESTANTIAMQ[ue]
FLAVIAE PVBLICIAE
V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
SANCTISSIMAE
AC RELIGIOSISSIMAE
M[arcus] AVRELIVS HERMES
OB EXIMIAM EIVS
ERGA SE BENIVOLENTIAM
PRAESTANTIAMQVE
FL[aviae] PVBLICIAE
SANCTISSIMAE
AC PIISSIMAE
V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
T[itus] FL[avius] APRONIVS
FICTOR V[irginum] V[estalium]
LOCI SECVNDI
DIGNISSIMAE
AC PRAESTANTISSI-
MAE PATRONAE
CVM SVIS
COELIAE CLAVDIAN[ae]
V[irgini] V[estali] MAXIMA[e]
SANC[ti]SSIMA[e]
[religios]ISSIMA[e]
[pie]NTI[ssimae]
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COELIAE CLAVDIA-
NAE V[irgini] V[estali] MAXIMAE
SANCTISSIMAE AC
BENIGNISSIMAE
COELIA CLAVDIANA C[larissima] F[emina]
SOROR CVM
NICOMEDE V[iro] E[gregio]
COELIAE CLAVDIANAE V[irgini] V[estali]
MAX[imae] SANCTISSIMAE RELIGI-
OSISSIMAE AC SVPER OM-
NES PIISIMAE CVIVS OPE-
RA SACRORVM GVBERNAN-
TE VESTA MATRE MAXI-
MATVS SVI X X CONPLEBIT
AVRELIVS FRVCTOSVS CLI-
ENS ET CANDITATVS BENIG-
NITATAE EIVS PROBATVS
SIC X X SIC XXX FELICITER
OB MERITVM CASTITATIS
PVDICITIAE ADQ[ue] IN SACRIS
RELIGIONIBUSQVE
DOCTRINAE MIRABILIS
C[ / / / / / /]e V[irgini] V[estali] MAX[imae]
PONTIFICES VV[iri] CC[larissimi]
PROMAG[istro] MACRINIO
SOSSIANO V[iro] C[larissimo] P[ontifice] M[aiore?]
DEDICATA V IDVS IVNIAS
DIVO IOVIANO ET VARRONIANO
CONSS[ulibus]