Res Gestae Inscription

The inscription places him as consul in 12 bc.

Painel do homem aranha para festa infantil. Under the hearsay rule a court normally refuses to admit as evidence statements that a witness says he or she heard another person say. Res gestae divi augusti eng. The deeds of the divine augustus is the funerary inscription of the first roman emperor augustus giving a first person record of his life and accomplishments.

Res gestae describes a common law doctrine governing testimony. It is inscribed on marble in a building which was a temple of augustus in ankara asia minor todays turkish capital. The text tells us how he wanted to be remembered.

The inscription of shapur i skz the skz is a trilingual inscription in middle persian parthian and greek. The inscriptions shapur is kaba ye zartosht inscription shortened as shapur kz skz skz also referred to as the great inscription of shapur i and res gestae divi saporis rgds is a trilingual inscription made during the reign of the sasanian king shapur i r. The res gestae in apollonia was inscribed only in greek on a large base built to support several statues of the imperial household of augustus dedicated between 14 and 19 ce scheid res gestae p.

240270 after his victories over the romans. This is perhaps the most famous inscription left us by antiquity. The res gestae divi augustithe achievements of the deified augustus are the official autobiography of augustus the man who had renovated the roman empire during his long reign from 31 bce to 14 ce.

It commemorates his role as the founder of the roman empire in the words he chose to memorialize his acts. The earliest historical account we have of quirinius comes from an inscription found in pisidian antioch known as res gestae the deeds of augustus caesar by augustus. Carved onto the kaaba of zoroaster it records the deeds of shapur i second king of the sasanian empire.

This position was attained by only two prominent romans every year and they governed as the roman heads of state. The res gestae famously dubbed by theodor mommsen 1887 as the queen of inscriptions is a testament to the collaborative achievements of epigraphers. The res gestae is especially significant because it gives an insight into the image augustus portrayed to the roman people.