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

written out in full. Rather, I think that it was a special addition to the office, standing
perhaps for censor or quaestor.
We have another boundary inscription, ST Cm 47, which will not be studied in
detail here because no office is attested in the inscription, although the names of those
appearing in the text will be considered in the section 5.5. Similarities with the above
boundary inscription must be noted: the text ends with the term teremnattens, used
several times in inscriptions defining the boundaries of public, private and sacred
property. The inscription attests the names of four individuals, which suggests that it
might have been a local custom to send out boards of four to demarcate borders of
properties.
We also have one relevant inscription from the town of Abella, ST Cm 8, Ve 137,
Co 96, SE 58 (1992) 355-9.626
Its date and exact provenance are unknown.
mais vestir, [ikiis)
mai(eiis) kv, (aistur) terem[natted]
Maius Vestiricinus
son of Maius quaestor defined it.
This inscription, like ST Cm 48 and 47, may have been a boundary stone. Along with
the Cippus Abellanus it attests the office of quaestor in Abella. The closest other
examples of the office are the quaestors of Pompeii and of the lex Osca of Tabula
Bantina, whose function, on the Roman model, was management of public finances. 627
As at Pompeii and Rome, the quaestorship at Abella may have been collegial, perhaps a
625
See section 2.4.2.
626
Antonini (1992) 355-9. The stone is now lost, but the inscription is known from the publications of
Passen and Remondini, the latter of whom transferred the stone to the Museum of the Nolan Episcopal
Seminary, after having found it in Abella.
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