By Duncan Fishwick

This quantity analyzes the priesthood of the provincial cult in each province of the Latin west the place facts has survived within the interval from Augustus all the way down to the mid 3rd century.
Particular recognition is paid to the epigraphic checklist, particularly the Testimony of honorific statues particularly at provincial centres, yet dialogue additionally focusses at the foundation and heritage of provincial clergymen, their workplace and tasks, and their careers either prior to and after keeping provincial office.
Of particular curiosity are the 16 tables that checklist the most evidence preserved through the epigraphic checklist, additionally a concluding evaluate that summarizes the vital gains of the establishment together with the place of work of priestess and the position of administrative officers. a few fifty plates illustrate the textual content.

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But although the statues themselves have disappeared elements of their pedestals have been retrieved, many from the region of Les Terraux near the sanctuary, and from the length of the fragments it occasionally becomes possible to work out the number of statues the base once supported; in some cases, in fact, the surviving trace of a family member Alföldy () ; Wierschowski () ff. Cf. nos.  (ILTG ), . To these should perhaps be added no. , which seems not to have been a collective base; see Richard () , n.

15 Cf. nos. ), , , , , , , , , , , , , . On family group statues see Richard () –, calculating a total of  inscriptions drawn from collective bases. For the family monuments of Ti. Eppius Bellicus and three other priests (including nos. , ) see Richard () –, suggesting that intersecting avenues in the sanctuary will have been bordered by priestly monuments alligned regularly, much as the statues of provincial priests on the middle terrace of the provincial centre at Tarraco may have been placed in rows.

20 Remnants of such collective bases—stylobatae in Hirschfelds’s terminology—are recognizable from the outsize lettering – cms. 24 The inference is confirmed at Corduba where the priest is stated to have assumed the cost of his statue himself (below, p. ) and would be explicit at Lugdunum on the assumption that in the inscription of Adginnius Martinus (CIL , ) the restored phrase impensis] suis refers in fact to a statue. The word publice in contrast plainly shows that a monument was 18 Cf.

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