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

The last two quaestor inscriptions are rather fragmentary: ST Po 10, Ve 19, Co 49,
Pi 12D, SE 45 (1977) 327. ST Po 10. Found in the Street of Mercurius. It is usually
dated to the second century BC.
[--11--k]vaisstur 2[kümbennieis. t]anginud 3[--6-- üpsann]ü. deded 4[eituvad.
---
]rekhad 5[isisdu. prüf]atted
[ --11--] quaestor, by the decree [of the council] commissioned the construction of
[this ?]... [He himself) approved (this).
The last quaestor-inscription is ST Po 9 Ve 17, Co 50, Pi 12 E, SE 45 (1977) 327 (see
map VI). Found in two pieces re-used in the House of the Faun, rebuilt in the middle of
the second century
BC 734
[--. s]puriis. ma 2[k]vaisstur 3[kü]mparakineis 4[ta]ngin(ud). aamanaffed
[ ... ] Spurius son of Maraeus, quaestor, (by) the decree of the council,
commissioned (this).
Both inscriptions attest quaestors dedicating public works with the sanction of a council.
The title of quaestor was adapted from Rome, but functions seem more like
Roman aediles, which might even suggest that the office of aedile and that of the
quaestor was the same in Pompeii. With the approval of a local council they carried out
works on public buildings with money collected, presumably by them, from fines and
other sources (such as a will). Probably they formed a pair, but they often acted
independently.
734
Ling (2005) 46.
217