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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
[2] Corinth VIII. 2, 98 [under Augustus].
Corinth, Lechaion road; block of bluish marble preserving only a part of his name: Cn.
Ba[bbius Philinus].
[3] Corinth VIII. 2, 99, ph. [under Augustus].
Corinth; two fragments of a marble architectural block preserving only a part of his name: Cn.
Babbius [Philinus].
[4] Corinth VIII. 2, 100, ph. [under Augustus].
Corinth; fragment of a marble architectural block preserving a part of his name: Çn. Babbi[us
Philinus] l[---] IBO [- - -].
[5] Corinth VIII. 2, 101 [under Augustus].
Corinth; top of a bluish marble slab preserving only a fragmentary inscription: [Cn.] Babbius
P[hilinus].
[6] Corinth VIII. 2, 131 [under Augustus].
Corinth, forum; architrave block of porous stone preserving only a part of his name: Cn.
Babbius Philin[us].
[7]Corinth VIII. 2, 132 [under Augustus].
Corinth, forum; marble epistyle block from a round building, the so called "Babbius
Monument", erected at his own expense: [C]n. Babbius Philinus aed. pontif[ex] I d. s. p. f. ç.
idemque Ilvir p.
[8] Corinth VIII. 3, 155, pi. 14.
Corinth I. 3, 21-22 [under Augustus].
Corinth, forum, beside the so-called "Babbius Monument"; slab of blue marble used as an
orthostate revetment slab; the inscription was probably engraved on the podium of the
"Babbius Monument" erected at the person's own expense: [Cn. Babbius Philinu]s, aed.,
pontif[ex], I [d. s. p. f. c. idemque] Ilvir p.
[9] Corinth VIII. 3, 241, pi. 19 [under Augustus].
Corinth, forum; fragment of a circular base of white marble found in the cavea of the Odeion;
here: Cn. [Babbiol Phil in [o].
Remarks: Probably a rich freedman (none of the inscriptions gives his father's name and his
cognomen betrays a Greek origin) among the original colonists (Spawforth, in:
Rowan onomastics, 169) or a Greek who had received Roman citizenship; however
it is worth noting that his son [Cn.] Babbius Cn. f. Aem(ilia) [Ita]liç[us] (COR 110)
was ascribed to the local tribe Aemilia. He was the donor of two monuments in the
forum of the colony, the so-called "Babbius monument", ([7], [8]) and the adjacent
fountain of Poseidon ([6]). For his descendants and their relations to Delphi, see
Spawforth, op. cit. For the the three-man college of pontiffs in the Roman colony
of Corinth, see Stansbury, op. cit., 158-195.
M(ARCUS) B[ABBIUS] (?): see COR 660
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