Original scientific paper

RULING CLASS OF ASSERIA: MAGISTRATES AND BENEFACTORS & THEIR FAMILIAE AND FAMILIES

Anamarija KURILIĆ orcid.org/0000-0001-7178-4584 ; University of Zadar

Abstract

In this paper the author analyses 16 epigraphic monuments belonging to city magistrates and other distinguished personalities of Asseria, such as the city patron, the priestess of Diva Augusta, or generous benefactors who bestowed on the city some expensive buildings or other valuable gifts, but the inscriptions belonging to their evergetisms did not bring any of their supposed municipal offices nor honorific posts (see, for instance, nr. 8).
Majority of the inscriptions, twelve of them (nos. 1-12) date from the Early Principate (Augustus - approx. 160 AD), while just four (nos. 13-16) date from the Late Principate (approx. 160 AD - end of the 3rd century). [...]

Keywords

RULING CLASS; ASSERIA; MAGISTRATES; BENEFACTORS

Hrčak ID:

37961

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/37961

Publication date:

21.3.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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