Letter from the Proconsul of Achaea, Quintus Fabius Maximus

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Letter from the Proconsul of Achaea, Quintus Fabius Maximus, to the Council of Dyme in Achaea. Production Place: Greece, Peloponnese. Limestone, carved, 200-101 B.C. Hellenistic Period. Notes: It records his judgement against Sosos and his accomplices who burnt the public records in protest at the constitution imposed by the Romans after the defeating the Achaean League. Undated but Proconsuls of this name served in the years 145, 142, 121 and 116 BC. On loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from Trinity College.

Image data

Accession Number: Loan Ant.6
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Photographer name: Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 947 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 779.39kB

Key words

2nd Century Ancient Greece Ancient Rome BC carved Hellenistic Period language letter limestone proconsul Roman script texts writing written

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Letter from the Proconsul of Achaea, Quintus Fabius Maximus"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-208372 Accessed: 2024-11-02 18:24:34

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-208372
            |title=Letter from the Proconsul of Achaea, Quintus Fabius Maximus
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-02 18:24:34|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-208372

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant48/Loan_20Ant_6_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Inscription"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Letter from the Proconsul of Achaea, Quintus Fabius Maximus</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>