Submitted for award of PhD September 2006. - King's College London

period. Although the text is now lost, it has been reconstructed from a plaster cast by
Sgobbo. It has been dated to the third century BC and is probably the oldest of the
three administrative inscriptions. The text goes as follows.
min(is). heii(s). pak(ieis). m(eddis). v. inim m(eddis) x ekik. pavmentdm.
üpsannüm. dedens
Minius Heius son of Pacius meddix v, and the meddix x commissioned (plur. )
the construction of (this) floor.
ST Cm 9, Ve 108, Pocc 132, Pi 16, SE 48 (1980) 428,9. Incised on the base of a
statue, found walled into a pillar in the temple of Apollo on the acropolis of Cumae.
The stone had apparently been removed from the temple of Jupiter Flagius. Dated to
the second half of the third century BC. 535
[-9/10-ni]u(msieis). m(eddis) v. inim. m(eddis) X. 2ekik: se[g]ünüm: lüvei:
flagiüi pr(u): vereiiad: duneis: dedens
[ -9/10 ] son of Numisius(? ) m(eddix) v, and the m(eddix) x gave (plur. ) this
statue as a gift to Jupiter Flagius on behalf of the vereia.
ST Cm 5, Pocc 134, SE. 48 (1980) 428,8. On the capital of a marble column. The
column was found in a building, thought to have been part of the public baths and
gymnasium. The column stood on a pedestal in a rectangular basin lined with
marble. The inscription may be dated to the end of the third century BC. 536
ma heiis. de(kieis). m(eddis). v. inim. m(eddis). x ekak. fliteam. emmens.
Maius Heius son of Decius meddix v, and the meddix x bought (plur. ) this
1liteam.
535
Capaldi (2001) 20-1.
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