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Costs, Outlays and Summae Honorariae from Roman Africa

1962; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 30; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0068246200001616

2045-239X

Richard Duncan-Jones,

In this survey I have attempted to collect all the building costs and other known outlays or charges that have survived from the cities of Roman Africa, omitting only those examples which are purely military and those which date from after the reign of Diocletian. The list is based primarily on an investigation of the published epigraphy of the area, though I have also been able to use five unpublished price-inscriptions. None of the existing indices to the volumes of African inscriptions are comprehensive in their coverage of prices, and so it has been impossible to check whether the list includes all known examples; but it is unlikely that there are large omissions. The provinces from which the material is drawn are as follows: Africa Proconsularis, Numidia (which became an independent province in 197–198 A.D.) and the Mauretanias, Caesariensis and Tingitana. When giving the locality of cities in the province of Proconsularis, I have followed the Diocletianic divisions (Zeugitana, Byzacena, Tripolitania and Numidia Proconsularis) for the sake of closer definition.