Documentary consular dates

RIB Translation and Commentary interpret the formula as 104 CE; comparison with the modern roster is a year reference, not independent corroboration.

Carlisle (Luguvalium), Annetwell Street · Excavation find; Tullie House Museum, accession unknown. No personal presence inferred.

Edition status: under-development. Header date: (no indication).

• One tablet; the edited and diplomatic forms are dependent readings.
• Colleague uninscribed; no complete pair or PIR identification admitted.
• Expansion of S as consul is editorial; brackets and uncertain letters retained.
• Day/month illegible. BENO/BVNO/QVINO unresolved; no execution-place identification.
• Document dating does not establish the consul’s tenure, presence or journey.

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RIB commentary b.20–21 identifies the named ordinary consulship with 104 CE; the Introduction places this heading in section 1. The local Degrassi year reference is a comparison, not independent corroboration or a completed formula.

104 CE dates the selected account-section heading at b.20. The wider header range is contextual (97–105). The adjacent 1 January entry at b.21 is not the date of the whole account or a consul term. No year is transferred to the separately proposed chronology of section 2, including the unnamed governor visit at c.back.96.

Vindolanda, SG (bonfire site), Period 3 · Published assemblage context outside the Period 3 praetorium; now British Museum. This locates the account, not the consul, an appointment or a journey.

Edition status: published-online-re-edition. Header date: a.d. 97-105.

• One account assemblage; the edited and diplomatic displays are dependent, not two independent witnesses.
• The braces preserve an abandoned K I. Commentary describes overwriting the opening without erasure; the diplomatic k i is retained.
• Subur[ano] is restored; the colleague, consul title and iteration numeral are not completed in this selected reading.
• 104 CE dates account heading b.20 only; no whole-document date, 1 January creation date or tenure is asserted.
• Section-2 date assignments and the order of the leaves have published alternatives. No precise year or named identity is assigned to the governor-visit entry.
• No Aemilianus expansion, PIR concordance, Carlisle person merge, consul presence, household identity or travel route is admitted.

c.back.96, #ed-ac.Back-l96; Introduction, section-2 chronology caveat

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A consularis visit is reported without a personal name. The editors describe section-2 years as proposed; the b.20 year cannot be transferred to this entry as a secure date. No named governor, specific office term or route is admitted.

• RIB editors propose May–July 104 for section-2 lines 87–111. Line 95 has Kalends of May, out of sequence; the note allows an error for 1 June. No exact visit day is chosen. Introduction, section 2 chronology table and preceding caveat; c.back.95, #note62
• RIB reports an alternative leaf order placing lines 73–111 in 105. Dependent report in the inspected RIB edition; the Birley publication itself was not collated. Introduction, paragraph discussing A. R. Birley (2002), p. 128 and alternative sequence

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