A New Inscription of the Dionysiac Speira from Histria

The author publishes two fragmentary Greek inscriptions mentioning C. Iulius Quintillianus, attes­ted as governor of Moesia inferior c. 215 AD through a Roman military diploma (RMD IV, 609-610, App. I.1: leg(atus) Aug(usti) pr(o) pr(aetore)) and a series of coins from Marcianopolis (where the name is spelled Quintilianus). The first one was recently found by chance (2017) in the village lying near Istros/Histria (Fig. 1). It is an album issued by the well-known speira Dionysiaston recor­ding the [hymnodoi] neoteroi who won the [agon] choron and the ‘overall contest’ (kata p[anton], with commentary). This new document allows a finer restoration of another album issued by the same association (Avram 2015, 129-133, no. 5) and furnishes new data on its activities. Furthermore, the name of the governor C. Iulius Quintillianus can be also identified in another fragmenta­ry inscription of unknown provenance (region of Dobrudja, possibly Histria) belonging to the collection of the Institute of Archaeology at Bucharest (Fig. 2). This Quintil(l)ianus is, as already demonstrated in Eck – Roxan 1998, the same as C. Iulius Quintilianus attested as praefectus vigilum in 208-211.

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