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

supply uninterrupted and to give games; this all involved private expenditure.
Occasionally, they appear as magistrates prosecuting offenders against a wide range of
laws and public regulations. 725 Although the attested responsibility of the Pompeian
aediles is limited by the inscriptions at our disposal to the public repair of streets, this
suggests that their functions were similar to those of the aediles of Rome, from whom
the title had been borrowed.
6.3.4. Quaestores
Six stone inscriptions attest the office of the quaestor in Pompeii. Five fragments record
single officers dealing with different kinds of financial transactions and one inscription
proves that the office was collegial. We also have evidence for the existence of a
quaestor Pompeianus. The texts use the spellings kvaizstur and kvaisstur.
First, ST Po 8, Ve 16, Co 48, Bu 10, Pi 12C, SE 45 (1977) 326-7 found re-used in
the House of Cornelius Rufus (Strada dell'Abbondanza, 8.4, see map VI)
m(ina)z. avdiis. kli. 2dekis. seppii s. üpf(alleis). 3kvaizstur. upsens726
Minatius Audius son of Cle (... ). Decius Seppius son of Offellus quaestores built
this).
It is not clear whether kvaizstur is a plural noun, but the verb upsens is plural. So the two
men built something together. Probably, although we cannot be sure, both were
quaestor.
725
Lintott (1999) 129-33.
726 M(ina)tus Audius Cle. filius, D. Seppius Off. filius questores fecerunt
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