Timeline for Why is the Roman acronym SPQR and not SPR?
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 23:08 | comment | added | Yeti | The original source was said to come from ""Geschichte der Römer" - (eng. tranlation: History of the Romans) by Oskar Jäger", and the Wikipedia user said about him: "and he is very thourough in his facts". You can read the discussion yourself, but due to lack of clear evidence the theory was removed from Wikipedia. | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 19:25 | comment | added | luchonacho | @JoonasIlmavirta Mmm, interesting to see that apparently the final version of the inscription in the Temple of Saturn dates from around the 3rd century, which is also after the Roman Republic. It would be very interesting to find such inscription dating from the actual Roman Republic. This must have been studied by someone! Maybe there is somewhere an explanation in a book or paper. | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 19:06 | comment | added | Joonas Ilmavirta♦ | @luchonacho I'm not familiar enough with the Roman inscriptions to say which readings of SPQR have been found in full and which have not. I mentioned the temple of Saturn in my answer, so with that triumph arch it makes a score 2 for Senatus populusque Romanus. It is of course good to be aware that this reading might not be the only one, but attestations of any alternative in literature or inscriptions would make the point far stronger. (Still, this answer got my upvote for presenting numerous options.) | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 19:00 | comment | added | luchonacho | The only problem I see with this answer is that the only inscription I have found that has the expression written in full is the Arch of Titus (@JoonasIlmavirta maybe you know of more?). And that inscription uses the "populusque" version. However, that arch was built around 82 AD, which is when there was already the Roman Empire (it seems the SPQR expression referred to the Roman Republic, which ended in 27 BC). So if the Q has a different meaning, it might need to imply the Arch of Titus did not meant to use SPQR as used earlier. | |
| Aug 12, 2017 at 11:34 | history | edited | Yeti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2017 at 11:22 | history | answered | Yeti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |