Published: 2017-12-09

The Administrative Operations of the ‘Officium a Rationibus’ in the Light of the ‘Epistula ad Saepinum’

Karol Kłodziński
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2017.17.1.01

Abstract

Summary

The article presents an analysis of two formal and very important aspects of the inscription on the Epistula ad Saepinum (CIL IX 2438 = FIRA I2 61), which dates back to 169–172 AD. Both are connected with the operations of the officium a rationibus, the chief Roman office handling imperial finances. I use the Saepinum inscription to discuss the administrative activity of this office and the controversies connected with the administrative status of the imperial freedman Cosmus. In my opinion Cosmus was the head of the a rationibus office, not a lower-rank officer.

Keywords:

Roman administration, the a rationibus office, the Epistula ad Saepinum, praetorian prefects, Imperial freedmen, equestrians.

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Kłodziński, K. (2017). The Administrative Operations of the ‘Officium a Rationibus’ in the Light of the ‘Epistula ad Saepinum’. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 17(1), 5–32. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2017.17.1.01

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