Tiberius Claudius Priscus
(0152) Text: [ἡ] β[ουλὴ] καὶ ὁ δῆμος | ἐτείμησαν | Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον | Τιβερίου υἱον Κυρείνα | Πρεῖσκον, χειλίαρχον | λεγιῶνος δεκάτης | Φρετηνσίας | ἔπαρχον σπείρης πρώτης | τοξοτῶν | Φλάβιοι Πρεῖσκος Ἡράκλει- | τος καὶ Ζώπυρος καὶ Διονύσιος Ἀρτεμιδώρου, φύσει δὲ | Διονσίου, τὸν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ | υἱον.
Translation: The council and people honoured Tiberius Claudius Priscus, son of Tiberius of the tribe Quirina, tribune of legio X Fretensis and eparch of cohors I Sagittariorum. Erected by Flavius Priscus Heraclitus, Flavius Zopyrus, and Dionysius son of Artemidorus but Dionysius in nature, his brother’s son. (Trans. Christopher B. Zeichmann)
Commentary: Tiberius Claudius Priscus served in Judaea as a tribune in legio X Fretensis. The exact date of his time as tribune of legio X Fretensis is uncertain, but he began his career under Domitian.
Provenience: Ephesus, Asia (Efes, Turkey) 81-135 CE
Bibliography: IEphesos 7.3032; Edward Dąbrowa, Legio X Fretensis: A Prosopographical Study of Its Officers (I – III c. A.D.), Historia Einzelschriften 66 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1993), 68.