04-23-2014, 01:28 PM
Quote:Well this is really odd, the governor of the province during that year was Tiberius Alexander ...Don't panic. H.-G. Pflaum* re-read the inscription and decided that it was not Year 1 but Year 11. The Egyptian Year began on 29 August, so Vespasian's eleventh year ran from 29 August AD 78 to his death on 23 June AD 79. This means that "Liternius Fronto" is actually Aeternius Fronto (as I noted in passing here in 1988 :wink: ).
* H.-G. Pflaum, "A propos des Préfets d'Égypte d'Arthur Stein", Latomus 10 (1951), pp. 471-77.
