Building inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Fifth to sixth century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 14, and pl.LIII B, whence [...], 1964.589; mentioned [...], 72.

εὐτυχῶς ἐπὶ τοῦ μεγαλοπρεπεϲτάτου Παύλου ὑπατικοῦ ἐγένετο τὸ ἔργον τοῦτο

Translation

With good fortune. Under the most magnificent Paulos, consularis, this work took place.

Commentary

Line 3: Paulus (PLRE II, Paulus 14) is described as a consularis,which sometime describes a provincial governor, but is not recorded for governors of Pentapolis, unless Paulus' appointment was extraordinary; see the discussion by Kraeling loc. cit. Otherwise he must have been a distinguished local citizen; the phrasing, 'ἐπί, under' implies that he was holding an official position.. His rank, magnificentissimus, indicates a date in the later fifth or sixth century (see discussion at ALA VI.26). Kraeling assigned him responsibility for very considerable reorganisation of the building and notes that this would be surprising if he held office after the seat of government was moved from Ptolemais to Apollonia in the sicth century; it is probably better to suppose that his responsibility was limited to a "redecoration" which included laying the surviving pavement in which the inscription is embedded.