Honours for an emperor
created: From previous publications (Reynolds)
source date: First century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 15, p.113 and plate 82 (drawing), whence [...], I.1036

[...]σ[...]ἀρχιερεῖ μεγίστωι δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ γ ὑπάτωι τὸ γ πατρὶ πατρίδος ἡ Κυραναίων πόλις ἀφιερώσαντος Αὔλου Μινικίου Ῥούφου ἀνθυπάτου

Apparatus

Translation

For - . . . ] high [priest pontifex maximus], holding tribunician power for the third time, consul for the third time, father of the country: the city of the Cyrenaeans dedicated the statue; the consecration was performed by A(ulus) Minicius Rufus, the proconsul.

Commentary

Line 6: If the inscription is correctly read, the emperor must be either Gaius, from the first of January to his death on 15th March 40, Claudius, from the first of January to 31 December 43, or Vespasian from the first of January to 31 December 71.

Lines 9-10: Minicius Rufus PIR2, M 0626. See also the milestone M.199 referring to the proconsulate of Lucius Minicius Rufus, apparently dated to 77/78. This suggests either that Smith and Porcher made more errors in the transcription of figures here, or that an earlier Minicius Rufus, perhaps with praenomen A(ulus), also held the proconsulate.