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Publius Sulpicius Quirinius (c. 51 BC – AD 21), also translated as Cyrenius, [1] was a Roman aristocrat. After the banishment of the ethnarch Herod Archelaus from the tetrarchy of Judea in AD 6, Quirinius was appointed legate governor of Syria, to which the province of Judaea had been added for the purpose of a census. [2]
This Byzantine mosaic (c. 1315 CE, Chora Church, Istanbul) depicts Syrian governor Quirinius (seated, left) overseeing the census registration of Mary and Joseph (haloed, right). The Census of Quirinius was a census of the Roman province of Judaea taken in 6 CE, upon its formation, by the governor of Roman Syria, Publius Sulpicius Quirinius.
Dąbrowa, Edward, The Governors of Roman Syria from Augustus to Septimius Severus (1998) Schürer Emil, Vermes Geza, Millar Fergus, The history of the Jewish people in the age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135), Volume I, Edinburgh 1973, p. 243-266 (Survey of the Roman Province of Syria from 63 B.C. to A.D. 70).
The governor is assisted by a provincial council, all of whose members are popularly elected for four-year terms. In addition, each council elects from among its members an executive bureau which administers the day to day issues between provincial council sessions.
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The Stele of Quintus Aemilius Secundus is a first-century Roman tombstone bearing a notable funerary inscription. [1] It records how the dedicatee served in Roman Syria under Publius Sulpicius Quirinius, who was governor of Syria at the time, and there oversaw a census in the town of Apamea.
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The ancient city of Palmyra was an important trading center and possibly Roman Syria's most prosperous city The Roman empire in the time of Hadrian (ruled 117–138 AD), showing, in western Asia, the imperial province of Syria (Syria/Lebanon), with four legions deployed in 125 AD. (During the Principate)