Quintus Roscius Falco
(0180) Text: Q(uinto) Roscio Sex(ti) f(ilio) | Quir(ina) Coelio Murenae | Silio Deciano Vibull(i)o | Pio Iulio Eurycli Herc(u)lano | Pompeio Falconi co(n)s(uli), | XVvir(o) s(acris) f(aciundis), proco(n)s(uli) provinc(iae) Asiae, leg(ato) pr(o) pr(aetore) | Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) Traiani Hadriani Aug(usti) provinc(iae) | Brittanniae, leg(ato) pr(o) pr(aetore) Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) Nervae | Traiani Aug(usti) Germanici Dacici | [pr]ovinc(iae) Moesiae Inferior(is), curatori | [via]e Traiani et leg(ato) Aug(usti) pr(o) pr(aetore) provinc(iae) [Iudaeae e]t leg(ionis) X Fret(ensis), leg(ato) pr(o) pr(aetore) prov(inciae) Lyciae | [et Pamphyl]iae, leg(ato) leg(ionis) V Macedonic(ae). | [bello Dacico, donis militari]bus donato | […]a | […]
Translation: For Quintus Roscius Coelius Murena Silius Decianus Vibullus Pius Julius Eurycles Herclanus Pompeius Falco, son of Sextus the Quinquevir, consul, Quindecimvir, Sacerdos Fetiales, proconsul of the province of Asia, propraetorian legate of the emperor Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus in the province of Britain, propraetorian legate of the emperor Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus Germanicus Dacicus in the province of Moesia Inferior, curator of Trajan’s roads and propraetorian legate in the province of Judaea with legio X Fretensis, propraetorian legate in the provinces of Lycia and Pamphylia, legate of legio V Macedonica in the Dacian wars. From the proceeds of military campaigns, I present this. (Trans. adapted from Roman-Britain)
Commentary: Additional inscriptions honour Quintus Roscius Falco in §181 and §193. He was governor of Judaea 106-108 CE.
Provenience: Tarracina, Italia (near Terracina, Italy); after 124 CE
Bibliography: CIL 10.6321; ILS 1.1035; AE 1980.202; Werner Eck, Rom und Judaea: Fünf Vorträge zur römischen Herrschaft in Palaestina, Tria Corda 2 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007), 114-115; Edward Dąbrowa, Legio X Fretensis: A Prosopographical Study of Its Officers (I – III c. A.D.), Historia Einzelschriften 66 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1993), 36-38.