TITULUS HONORARIUS
  
Inscription of Titus Veturius
    
( AD 2nd century )
 
 
( Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 451, n. 126 ).
  
 
Sacerdoti omnium Caesar, T. Vetuiro T. fil. Gol. Campestir auguir II viro II vir q. q. II vir III panec rgrati anuon sacerdoti da . . lrcuri condtoir patriat H II misso lecmo . . . a colonai nurbemsikeviatco . . . semelouidemardivom Hadrianum . . . . III auem adoptimum maximum oue . . . bisimpcaesar T. Aelium Hadrianum . . . Antoninum Auc Pium ex d. d. vicuscopdy.
Transcription
Sacerdoti omnium Caesarum, T. Veturio T. fil. Collina Campestri, auguri, II viro, II viro quinquennali, II viro tertium . . . . et curatori annonae, sacerdoti Dei Mercuri, conditori patriae, quater misso legato a colonia in Urbem sine viatico, semel quidem ad divum Hadrianum, ter autem ad optimum maximumque . . . Imperatorem Caesarem T. Aelium Hadrianum Antoninum Aug. Pium ex decreto decurionum vicus . . . . .
 
English translation ( Eilers, Leiden, 2009, p. 195 ).
  
 
(...) sent as envoy four times by the colonia to the city (of Rome) without subsidy, once to the Divine Hadrian and three times to the best and greatest Caesar who as been twice acclaimed as imperator, Caesar T. Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius.
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
AE 1916, n. 120 ; Rev. arch., 3, 1916, p. 339 ; Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 451, n. 126 ; Sherwin-White, The letters of Pliny : A historical and social commentary, Oxford, 1966, p. 626 ; AE 1969-70, n. 592 ; Hüttl, Antoninus Pius, I, New York, 1975, pp. 64, 142 and 150 ; Millar, The emperor in the Roman world (31 BC-AD 337), London, 1977, p. 380 ; French, The inscriptions of Sinope, Bonn, 2004, n. 102 ; Martin & Vigourt, Pouvoir et religion dans le monde romain, en hommage à Jean-Pierre Martin, Paris, 2006 ; Eilers, Diplomats and diplomacy in the Roman world, Leiden, 2009, p. 195.

 
►  Source : Marble column found at Sinop ( = Sinope), Turkey.