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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
but there is only a minute possibility that they are one and the same person.
Schwertfeger, op. cit. connects the epithet άξιόνεικος with the competition of the
aristopoliteia; for a different view see B. Puech, "Grand-prêtres et helladarques
d'Acha'fe", REA 85, 1983, 31, η. 64. The collegium of δεκάπρωτοι corresponds to
decemprimi attested in many cities of Greece and Asia Minor (T. Schwertfeger, OIB
10, 1981, 251-252 for parallels and more bibliography). About άριστοπολιτεία see
CG. Brandis, RE II 1 (1896) 1008-1010, s.v. άριστοπολιτεία; see also L. Robert,
"Études d'épigraphie grecque", RPh 1934, 268, η. 4, who argues that, among the
Greeks, this honour was frequently alloted by competition (άγων); a typical
example is that of άριστοπολιτεία in Sparta and Messene; see also L. Robert,
Hellenica XI-XII (1960), 573-576. The phrase έπί τω στεφάνω τής άριστοπολιτείας
καί τοίς άρίστοις is to be interpreted as the justification of the dedication.
According to Schwertfeger, op. cit., 254 the άριστοπολιτεία appears, with only one
exception, only in the Péloponnèse in the imperial era and especially in Sparta.
*148. ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΣ ΚΑΑΥΔΙΟΣ ΚΡΙΣΠΙΑΝΟΣ
[1] 7v0447 facsimile [2nd c. A.D.].
Olympia; a statue base of gray marble erected by the polis of Messene honouring the person
as νέος "Επαμεινώνδας:
Ή πόλις Ι ή Μεσσηνίων Τιβ(έριον) ΚλαύΙδιον Κρισπιανόν, νέον Ι Έπαμεινώνδαν, αρχιερέα
διά βίου τών Σεβαστών, στρατευΙ 5 σάμενον έπαρχον σπείρης πρΙώτης Βοσποριανής καί
χειλίίαρχον λεγιώνος δωδέκατης Ι κεραυνοφόρου, άριστα πολειίτευόμενον.
[2] /ν0448 facsimile [2nd c. A.D.].
Olympia; a limestone statue base erected by the Achaean Koinon in honour of the person
discussed here:
To κοινόν Ά[χαιών] Ι Τιβ(έριον) Κλαύδιον Ι Κρισπιανόν ΜεσσήΙνιον [άρ]ξαντα τοις Ι
Έλλησι συν[φερ]όνΙτως.
Messenian
praefectus cohortis primae Bosporianae, tribunus militum legionis XII Fulminatae
Remarks: For έπαρχος σπείρης πρώτης Βοσποριανής (=praefectus cohortis primae
Bosporianae) see Mason, 45, for χειλίαρχος λεγιώνος δωδέκατης κεραυνοφόρου
(=tribunus militum legionis XII Fulminatae) see Mason, 138. About Cohors I
Bosporiana see C. Cichorius, RE IV 1 (1900), 255, s.v. Legio; about Legio XII
Fulminata, veterans of which were settled in Patrai (cf. Rizakis, Achaïe II, 25-26),
see W. Kubitschek, RE XII 2 (1925) 1705-1710, s.v. Legio (XII Fulminata) (Ti.
Claudius Crispianus St. 1709); H.M.D. Parker, The Roman legions (Chicago 1980)
110. 128. 134. 136-8. 148. 159. 254. 261. 269. The phrase [άρξ]αντα τοις Έλλησι
συν[φερ]όντως [2] means the head of the Achaean Koinon and is to be regarded as
an equivalent to helladarch.
For the person see Devijver, C 136, p. 249. He is also honoured by the Achaean
Koinon in Messene, see SEG 11, 1950, 984 and MES s.v.
464