Interpreting Principate through Inscriptions

Roman History:  Work Sheet on Interpreting the Principate Through Inscriptions

1. For each of the following inscriptions answer the following:
1. What emperor is named in the inscription?
2. What is the approximate date of the inscription?

    

2. Answer the following based on the texts of all four inscriptions:
1. What features of imperial titulature remain constant?
2. What are the more significant differences between earlier and later inscriptions?
3. What message(s) were all Roman emperors particularly concerned to convey through their various names and titles?

IMP. CAESAR

DIVI F.

AUGUSTUS COS. XI

TRIBUN. POTEST. XII

IMP. XIII

                                                                                       (Found at Verona.  ILS 90)

       IMP. CAESAR VESPASIANUS AUG., PONTIF. MAX. 

       TRIB. POT. VII, IMP. XVII, P.P., COS. VII DESIGN. VIII,

       TEMPLUM MATRIS DEUM TERRAE MOTU CONLAPSUM RESTITUIT.[1]

                                                                                       (Found at Herculaneum.  ILS 250)

IMP. CAESAR DIVI NERVAE F.

NERVA TRAIANUS OPTIMUS AUG.

GERMANICUS DACICUS PONTIF. MAX.

TRIB. POT. XVIII, IMP. VII, COS. VI, P.P.

SACRARIA NUMINUM VETUSTATE COLLAPSA A SOLO RESTITUIT.[2]

                                                                                        (Found at Rome.  ILS 295)

D. N. IMP. CAES.

FL. CONSTANTINO

MAXIMO P. F. VICTORI AUG.

PONTIF. MAX.

TRIB. POT. XXIII

IMP. XXIII, CONS. VII

P. P., PROCONS.

HUMANARUM RERUM

OPTIMO PRINCIPI[3]

DIVI CONSTANTI FILIO

BONO REIP. NATO.[4]

                                                                                           (Found at Vicetia.  ILS  697)