Imperial honours for Antoninus Pius
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: 138-161 CE
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Bibliography

Imperator Caesar diui Hadriani filius diui Traiani Parthici nepos diui Neruae pronepos Titus Aelius Antoninus Pius Augustus pontifex maximus tribunicia potestate . . imperator II [...] per Quintum [...] Iulium Potitum proconsulem

[Emperor Caesar] son [of deified Hadrian, grandson of deified Trajan, victor in Parthia,] great grandson of [deified] Nerva, [Titus Aelius Antoninus Pius Augustus, Chief Priest], holding tribunician p[ower for the ? time, acclaimed imperator ? . . . by ?Quintus Iuliu]s Potitus proconsul

Commentary

In this restoration, the use of the accusative case for the name of the proconsul strongly suggests that the text records a gift made by the emperor through the agency of the proconsul; hence the restoration of the nominative case for the emperor's name.

Line 4: Probably Q. Iulius Potitus (PIR2 I 0484a ) who is mentioned also in C.110. But he is not otherwise known.

Line 4: At the beginning of this line there may have been a description of the object given, or a reference to the recipients, but there is hardly room for the normal ciuitate Cyrenensium.