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Vota Pro Salvte Imperatoris in an Inscription at Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

Liviu Mǎrghitan  and
Constantin C. Petolescu
Liviu Mǎrghitan
Affiliation:
Muzeul de Istorie, Bucarest
Constantin C. Petolescu
Affiliation:
Muzeul de Istorie, Bucarest
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The evidence for the first town founded in Dacia after the Roman conquest is recorded in an important epigraphic document: ‘[Ex] au[ctoritate Imp(eratoris) Cae]saris divi Nerv[ae f(ilii) Nervae] Traiani Augusti condita Colonia Dacica per [D(ecimum) Terenti]um Scaurianum [leg(atum) eius] pr(o) pr(aetore)’. From the reign of Hadrian onwards, the town bears in inscriptions the name of Colonia Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa, sometimes given in a simplified form; in the third century A.D., during the reign of Severus Alexander, the title of ‘metropolis’ is added. Sarmizegetusa was the seat of the governor of the province of Dacia, and then of Dacia Superior, and finally became that of the general governor of the three Dacias (legatus Augusti pro praetore trium Daciarum, consularis Daciarum III). Throughout the Roman period, Ulpia Traiana was the political, cultural and religious metropolis of Dacia.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 66 , November 1976 , pp. 84 - 86
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Copyright © Liviu Mǎrghitan and Constantin C. Petolescu 1976. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 CIL iii 1443.

2 C. Daicoviciu, in RE, Suppl. x, col. 610–55, s.v. ‘Sarmizegethusa.’

3 idem, in Ritmuri Hunedorene 8 (December), Deva, 1967, 6; Mǎrghitan, Liviu and Petolescu, Constantin C., in Studii Clasice xvi (1974), 245Google Scholar, n. 1.

4 See G. Wissowa, RE iii, 1895, col. 1463–86, s.v. ‘Arvales fratres’; C. de la Berge, DA i, 449–53, s.v. ‘Arvales fratres’; G. Gatti, DizEp i, 1895 (1961), 682–710, s.v. ‘Arvales’; A. Pasoli, Acta fratrum Arvalium (1950).

5 CIL vi, 2023–2119, 32338–92, 37164–5.

6 We have completed our text with some emendations added to the version published in Studii Clasice xvi, 245–7, according to comments made by Miss J. M. Reynolds, to whom we address our warmest thanks, both for these comments and for other suggestions we shall mention further. We also express our gratitude to the Editor for the kindness he showed in conveying to us Miss Reynolds' and his own contributions and for agreeing to publish our paper in the Journal of Roman Studies.

7 cf. Henzen's indices in CIL vi.

8 Reynolds, J. M., ‘Vota pro salute principis’ PBSR xxx (1962), 33–6Google Scholar.

9 eadem, PBSR xxxiii (1965), 52–4.

10 eadem, PBSR xxx (1962), 36.

11 ILS 4918. See J. M. Reynolds, PBSR xxx (1962), 33, n. 2.

12 ibid., n. 3.

13 Ep. x, 35–6.

14 EP. x 100–1.

15 CIL iii 7902 ( = ILS 7155); cf. Piso, I., Acta Musei Napocensis ix (1972). 463–4Google Scholar.

16 See I. Piso, op. cit. (n. 15), 467 and nn. 26–30.

17 cf. idem, op. cit. (n. 15), 467 and n. 32.

18 Macrea, M., Viata în Dacia romanǎ (1969), 69Google Scholar. Cf. Deininger, J., Die Provinziallandtage der römischen Kaiserzeit (1965), 139Google Scholar; Daicoviciu, C., Acta Musei Napocensis iii (1966), 153–63Google Scholar.

19 CIL vi 32383 ( = A. Pasoli, op. cit. (n. 4), no. 75 b).

20 CIL iii 7969 ( = ILS 371).