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An Inscription of the Equites Singulares Imperatoris from Gerasa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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The following inscription has been kindly communicated to me, at the suggestion of Mr. D. G. Hogarth, by Mr. Henry Reitlinger, to whom I am very much indebted for permission to publish it in the Journal of Roman Studies.
Mr. Reitlinger informs me that the inscription, which was engraved upon one side of a block of grey limestone, apparently an altar, about two feet high by one foot six inches broad, was discovered by some Circassian peasants among the ruins of Gerasa, in the Syrian Decapolis, two days before he himself arrived on the site at the end of November, 1913. The altar, which was still in its original position, stood about 67 yards north-east of the propylaea, which gives access from the main street to the great temple of the Sun. The stone, it may be hoped, is still in existence, since it was given into the charge of the Turkish commandant, who promised to do his best to save it from being used as building material.
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page 14 note 1 I.G.R.R. iii, 1347: cf. 1357.
page 15 note 1 The lists cover the years 132–143 and 145, and contain 360 names: C.I.L. vi, 31140–31152.
page 15 note 2 C.I.L. 31147.
page 15 note 3 Used as a nomen. Curiously enough it seems to have been popular as a cognomen: cf. C.I.L. vi, 31150, 31151.
page 15 note 4 C.I.L. vi, 31173. The name of the dedicant, P. Aelius Celsus, shows that the inscription cannot be earlier than Hadrian.
page 15 note 5 C.I.L. 31174.
page 15 note 6 C.I.L. 3287, 3298, 31145.
page 15 note 7 C.I.L. 31141, 31143, 31145.
page 15 note 8 C.I.L. 31142.
page 15 note 9 C.I.L. 31143.
page 15 note 10 C.I.L. 31147, 31150, 31151.
page 15 note 11 C.I.L. 3144.
page 15 note 12 C.I.L. 31147.
page 15 note 13 C.I.L. 31151.
page 16 note 1 Weber, Untersuchungen zur Geschichte des Kaisers Hadrianus, pp. 56–60.
page 16 note 2 C.I.L. p. 60.
page 16 note 3 C.I.L. p. 234.
page 16 note 4 C.I.L. p. 275.
page 16 note 5 Josephus, Bell. Jud. ii, 18, 1Google Scholar.
page 16 note 6 See Weber, op. cit. p. 276 for the date of Hadrian's return to Rome.