Procurators of Asia minor during the Roman Period

Augustus, the founder of the Roman Empire, greatly included the members of the equestrian order to the administration of the Empire, in order to reduce the power of the senatorial class and to manage the provincial administration in a better way. Procurators, assigned from the equestrian order, beginning from Augustus throughout three centuries, became one of the most important pillars of the Empire both in the administration of the state and in provincial government as well. Numerous inscriptions found in Asia Minor give information about the posts of these procurators -who were appointed by the emperor himself and were working independently from provincial governors- such as tax collection, construction and repair of roads, border issues, collection of soldiers, supervision of the city expenses, etc.The only comprehensive study based on procurators was made by H. George Pflaum in the 1950?s. Because this study was completely based on prosopographical information i.e. personal information of procurators, it has provided limited information about procurators and their activities.In this new study having been prepared as a doctoral thesis, the fields of procurators and their activities are clearly revealed. In order to attain this result, all procurators, who had worked in Asia Minor, were determined with the help of literary and epigraphical sources and were put together within the scope of a corpus.