Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2.1883-1884(1888))

IN ASIA MINOR.

309

I M P

NERVACAESARAV
PONTMAXTRIBPOTESVM
COSIMPPRESTITVIT
PERPOMPON '#M0tA
BASSVMLEGPROPR

PMTA

Imp(erator)

Nerva Caesar Au[g](ustus)
Pont(ifex) Max(imus) trib(uniciae) potes[t](atis) II
Co(n)s(ul) III, p(ater) p(atriae) restituit

per Pompon[iu]m
Bassum leg(atum) pro pr(aetore).

P(assuum) m(ille) I, a .

The number of miles is given in both Latin and Greek, as seems
to be indicated by the horizontal bar over the I. This becomes
certain when the milestone found by Professor Hirschfeld at Iskelib
[see Hirschfeld's article Tavium in the Sitzungsberichte der k'dnigl.
preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1883, Vol. LIII. p.
1256, and Ephemeris Epigraphica, 1884, p. 39, No. 81] is compared
with the inscription given above. It, too, records a repair of roads
by this same legate Pomponius Bassus and its numerals

M I L • P • L XXX
Tf

are certainly bilingual.

Two other inscriptions of this legate are known [see C.I.L. III.
309, and Journal of Philology, 1S82, p. 155 = Ephemeris Epigraphica,
1884, p. 39, No. 82].

For a discussion of the date when T. Pomponius Bassus governed
Galatia, Cappadocia, Pontus, etc., see Journal of Philology, 1882, pp.
155, 156; Bullettino dell' Instiluto, 1844, p. 125 sqq., 1862, pp. 67,
68; Annali delP Institute, 1844, pp. 14 and 40; Eckhel, Doct.
Num., III. p. 190; Mionnet, Suppl. 7, pp. 632,665, 669; Perrot,