Neue Inschriftenfunde aus Aizanoi V: Aizanoi und Rom I

Abstract

Publication of two fragmentary orthostats from Aizanoi with the remains of three letters of Julius Caesar. The two fragments, together with MAMA IX 14, belonged to the same pediment of an important monument presumably dating from the 2^nd cent. AD. The subject of the correspondence from the year 46 BC, in which probably P. Servilius Isauricus and his quaestor M. Appuleius were involved, is the protection of the sacred land of Zeus of Aizanoi against revendications of publicani or a project of colonization. A review of the governorship of P. Cornelius Dolabella (68 BC) gives an occasion for consideration of the role of Aizanoi in the Third Mithridatic War.