Building inscription by a proconsul
created: From previous publications (Reynolds)
source date: Probably Augustan to first century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

a-b: [...], 262-3; d: [...], 34; a-d: [...], 26, whence [...] 1977.844, whence [...] 020890. For the findspot and origin see [...], 84. ; Mentioned [...], 276

Lucius Corona Luci filius Pro[...] proconsul faciendum curauit

[...]us trib[...]

Translations

[a-c]: Lucius Corona Pro[- . . . ], son of Lucius, [pro]consul, saw to the construction.

[d]: Not usefully translatable.

Commentary

There are also a number of similar blocks, uninscribed, but presumably from the same monument. Each complete block so far examined has small and quite rough Greek letters cut on the side faces. Montet believed that these were intended as a guide to the assembly of the monument and since the left side of a is marked with Β and the right side of b with Ο, he refused to associate these two blocks, although they were found side by side. It is clear from the fact that the right side of c, which is certainly the last block of the inscription, is marked with H, that the letters, whatever their intention, were not used as assembly guides and are irrelevant to the reconstruction of the text.

[a-c]: Not otherwise known (PIR supplement); the nomen is of Etruscan origin and very rare; there may have been a cognomen (Proculus), but not necessarily at the likely date.

[d]: Possibly from the titles of an emperor ...pontifex maxim]us trib(unicia) [potestate... but since this would involve a long text and a very large monument, it is possible that the proconsul's senatorial cursus was given in full and that the text at this point should be restored Pro[cul]us trib(unus) [militum ... The alternative, trib(unus) [pl(ebis) is harder to associate with the preceding VS since it should not have been the first post of his career.