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created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: CE 69-79 cf. A.54
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Bibliography

[...], 3.b, whence [...] 26.1816, whence [...] 324711; [...] 1974.684b, whence [...] 011700; [...], 59.b, whence [...] 27.1132; mentioned [...], 285..

[...]e [...]esi[...]e [...]au[...]λi [...]estu[...]co [...]n [...]tai[...]ae [...] locauit [...] Apollonio [...] quadringenis [...]a et [...] ob unum [...] medimnia [...]

Translations

. . . ] leased [ . . . ] to Apollonios [ . . . ] four hundred [ . . . ] on account of ?one [ . . . ] medimnia [ . . .

Commentary

Lines 1-6 are too badly worn to yield a text; it is a reasonable guess that some part of Caesar stood in line 2 and perhaps of Augustus in line 3.

From line 7 onwards enough survives to recall the terms of the lease of land belonging to the city of Apollonia given in the reign of Vespasian to Apollonios son of Paraebatas at an annual rent of 408 denari for 23 1/2 medimnia: see A.54. The name of G. Arinius Modestus (PIR Addenda) the proconsul concerned on that occasion could be read in lines 3-4. This stone, taken with A.54, suggests that Vespasian decided to sell public land near the city (which was no doubt particularly difficult to keep clear of encroachment) and sold it to the city but exercised, through the proconsul, some supervision over the leases given.