[3] Until the recovery of a dedication from the ruins of a villa in Lucus Feroniae owned at one point by the Volusii Saturnini, all that was known of Saturninus beyond his consulate was his presence at one of the ceremonies of the Arval Brethren in 119.
[6] At this point, the Lucus Feroniae inscription presents problems, due both to damage and to unusual terminology.
In his discussion of this inscription Werner Eck first proposed the lost word was fabricum, an uncommon term for an assistant to a proconsular official; he could only cite two other examples of its usage.
[7] The second problem involves the next two lines, [ce]nturioni eq[uitum] [tu]rmae p[rimae].
At first glance this appears to be a less common form of the title sevir equitum Romanorum, an official who presided at the annual review of the equites; although a relatively unimportant function, Birley notes "it was thought worth mentioning by over a hundred senators.