Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1.1882-1883)

INSCRIPTIONS OF ASSOS.

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Accordingly he was consul in the year 1 a.d., and his name appears
in the fasti for that year. As consul he went in the year 1 a.d. to
Asia, accompanied by his tutor, M. Lollius (grandfather of Lollia
Paullina), and spent the year 2 a.d. in preparations for war against
Phraates IV., king of Parthia. He doubtless touched at Assos ; but
whether this is so or not, our inscription certainly dates from the
year 2 a.d.

Roman merchants were settled in various places in Greece and
Asia. Such resident merchants are mentioned in inscriptions of the
following places : at Prymnessos {MittJieilungeridesDeutschen Archac-
ologischen Instituts in Athen, 18S2, p. 127) ; at Akmonia (C. I. G.,
3874); at Apameia (Le Bas et Waddington, Inscriptions de I'Asie
Mincurc, 746) ; at Erythrai {Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique,
1880, p. 161) : at Delos [Bull.de Corr. Hell., 1879, p. 14S ; C.I. G.,
2285 b, 2286-2288 ; Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1877, p. 2S4, etc.) ; at Kibyra
{Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1878, p. 598, No. 5, and p. 599, No. 6) ; at
Argos {C.I. I., 595, 596 ; Foucart, Inscriptions du Peloponnese, 123,
124, 124 a; C.I. G., 1137) ; at Mantineia {Bulletino del! Institute
di Corrispondenza Archcologica, 1854, p. 35) ; at Edessa (Foucart,
Inscriptions, etc., 1345) ; at Berrhoea (Foucart, Inscriptions, etc.,
1330a) ; at Tralleis {Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1881, p. 347; C.I. G.,
2927, 2930) ; at Salamis in Cyprus (Le Bas et Waddington, Asie
Mineure, 2754) ; at Mytilene {Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1880, p. 433 ;
C.I. I., III. 450; Orelli-Henzen, 41 n) ; at Sestos {Bull, de Corr.
Hell., 1880, p. 516) ; at Kyzikos {Mittheilungen, etc., 1SS1, p. 41,
— cf. also Revue Arch., XXXII., p. 268 ; C.I. G., 3689 = C. I. I.,
III. 372 ; Hamilton, 315 = C. I. I., 373) ; at Pergamon {Die Erge-
bnisse der Ausgrabungen zu Pergamon, 1880-1881, p. 50). To this
list must now be added Assos, and probably Ilium {C.I. G., 3598b).
As a parallel to the Roman 7rpay/xaTev6fjievot in Greece and Asia
Minor, may be cited the merchants of Egypt and Kition in Cyprus,
who were resident at the Peiraieus (see Hermes, 1871, p. 352, where
Kohler says : Die Kitier und Aegypter treten in der Inschrift als
geschlossene Korperschaften auf, 'dhnlich wie in spdteren Insciiriften
die Italici oder cives Romani qui Argeis, qui Mityleneis negotiantur ;
see above). See Bull, de Corr. Hell., 1884 {Delos).