Honours for the procurator C. Pomponius Cordius
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Caio Pomponio Cordio procuratori Augustorum trium nostrorum trium Valerius Valens praefectus cohortis I Macedonicae praesidi optimo et benignissimo

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Translation

For Caius Pomponius Cordius, procurator of our three Augusti [Severus, Caracalla and Geta]; Valerius Valens, prefect of the [First Macedonian] cohort, for [his] best and most benign commander.

Commentary

Line 2: C. Pomponius Cordius: PIR2 P 0709, is not otherwise known. He is the earliest procurator so far recorded in Cyrenaica, and his post may be a new creation of Severus, for whose policy of expanding the equestrian civil service see H.G. Pflaum, Les procurateurs équestres sous le haut empire romain (Paris, 1950) 82f. he was perhaps concerned with the administration of the ager publicus formerly handled by publicani. The title praeses applied to him in line 7 may indicate that he had the authority of a governor (either because the series of proconsuls was temporarily interrupted or conceivably, during the absence of the contemporary proconsul in Crete), but in view of its application in c. 160 CE to T. Valerius Clemens proc. provinc. Belg. et utriusque Germ. (e.g. ILS 1362b, EDH 024769) may be simply honorific, cf. Pflaum, loc. cit. p. 116.

Line 3: AVGG[[G]] NN[[N]] i.e Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta; strictly between 209, when Geta received the title Augustus, and the death of Severus in 211, but Geta is not infrequently given the title Augustus at an earlier date: cf. IRT 913, 914, 915, 916.

Line 5: Valerius Valens: Just possibly to be identified with PIR1, V 0147, prefect of the fleet at Misenum and Prefect of the Vigiles under Gordian; but the name is a comparatively common one.

Line 6: Cohors I Macedonica: also in C.75. The number of the cohort is lost in both cases, but here the space available leaves no room for doubt that if there was a figure it was I.