Where the material evidence allows (which is often but not always), Fishwick addresses the same topics for each province: the epigraphic record and other sources, honorific statues, priestly titles, origin and social background of provincial priests, their careers, the priestly office and the title by which the priest is known, provincial priestesses, federal and provincial officials, chronology of that provincial priesthood, office and duties, administrative officials.

I return, then, to my epigraphic quotations from Gaines and southern literature critic Fred Hobson.

Peter Lampe, Professor of New Testament at Heidelberg University, uses epigraphic evidence to complement Christian texts: from Paul's Letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome, Justin Martyr, Montanus, and Valentinus.