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25: 154:(imperial governor) of his province but was not subordinate to him, reporting directly to the emperor. The governor headed the civil and judicial administration of the province and was the commander-in-chief of all military units deployed there. The procurator, with his own staff and agents, was in charge of the province's financial affairs, including the following primary responsibilities: 244:, who were military men, were gradually moved into the hands of procurators, who were essentially civilian fiscal officials. Egypt, as the special private domain of the emperor, which was administered by a 194:. The reason for the dual administrative structure was to prevent excessive concentration of power in the hands of the governor, as well as to limit his opportunities for 128:) was a title of certain officials (not magistrates) in ancient Rome who were in charge of the financial affairs of a province, or imperial governor of a minor province. 190:
The office of fiscal procurator was always held by an equestrian, unlike the office of governor, which was reserved for members of the higher
42: 89: 61: 464: 68: 378: 75: 198:. It was not unknown for friction to arise between governors and procurators over matters of jurisdiction and finance. 108: 57: 420: 46: 459: 150: 214:, i.e., a garrison- or troop-commanding procurator), however, might also be the governor of the smaller 82: 256:, who was often thought to have been a procurator, until the excavation of the inscribed so-called 241: 178: 35: 245: 248:, remained the exception. This transfer created some confusion among scholars dealing with 223: 8: 320: 373:
Encyclopedia of the Roman empire, page 256, Matthew Bunson, Infobase Publishing, 2002.
279: 390: 374: 285: 215: 222:). The same title was held by the fiscal procurators, who assisted governors of the 218:(i.e., those provinces whose governor was appointed by the emperor, rather than the 324: 253: 274: 269: 249: 141: 306: 453: 257: 219: 195: 191: 163: 229:
In addition, procurator was the title given to various other officials in
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the distribution of pay to public servants (mostly in the military)
174:, an imperial duty on the carriage of goods on public highways 230: 148:(30 BC – AD 284). A fiscal procurator worked alongside the 416:
A New Inscription Which Mentions Pilate as 'Prefect'
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An Imperial Possession: Britain in the Roman Empire
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