List of Roman governors of Roman Cyprus

This is a list of governors of Roman Cyprus, compiled from known inscriptions and surviving texts both literary and documentary. Until the reign of Diocletian, Cyprus was governed by a pro praetor with proconsular authority.

Date Name
before 16 BC[1] Lucius Tarius Rufus
before 1 BC Aulus Plautius
between 31 BC and AD 14 P. Paquius Scaeva
before AD 14 A. Didius Postumus
before AD 14 M. Vehilius
before c. 40 Gaius Ummidius Durmius Quadratus
after 29 L. Axius Naso
between 14 and 37 M. Verg[ilius ?]
between 14 and 37 C. Lucretius Rufus
42/43 T. Cominius Proculus
46/48 Lucius Sergius Paulus
middle 1st century Titius Clodius Eprius Marcellus
65 Q. Julius Cordus
66 Lucius Annius Bassus
middle 1st century L. Vilius
middle 1st century Vilius Milionius
79/80 [... Ma]rcius [...]tesinus[2]
80/81 Lucius Bruttius Maximus
81/82 L. Plotius P[...]
between 70 and 95 L. Pontius
100/101 Quintus Laberius Justus Cocceius Lepidus
101/102 Quintus Caelius Honoratus
113/114 Quintus Seppius Celer Marcus Titius Sassius Candidus
115/116 or 116/117 [...]gius Pate[rnus ?]
122/123 Gaius Calpurnius Flaccus
125/126 Paulus
between 118 and 138 Tiberius Claudius Juncus
1st half of 2nd century Publius Cassius Longinus
between 138 and 180[3] Tiberius Claudius Flavianus Titianus Quintus Vilius Proclus Lucius Marcius Celer Marcus Calpurnius Longus
c. 196/197[4] ? D. Plautius Felix Julianus
197/198 Tiberius Claudius Subatianus Proculus
198/199 Audius Bassus
c. 200 Appianus
between 193 and 211 T. Caesernius Stati[a]nus [Quinc]tianus
c. 217 (C.) Julius Avitus (Alexianus)
between 193 and 217 ? Sex. Clodius [...]nianus
217/218 Ti. Cl(audius) Attalus Paterculianus
3rd century[5] Poblicola Priscus
3rd century Theodorus
unknown L. Coelius Tarphinus

References
  1. Unless otherwise noted, governors from c. 31 BC to c. AD 69 are taken from Werner Eck, "Über die prätorischen Prokonsulate in der Kaiserzeit. Eine quellenkritische Überlegung", Zephyrus 23/24 (1972/73), pp. 250f
  2. Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 13 (1983), p. 218
  3. Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 265
  4. Unless otherwise noted, governors from 193 to 217 are taken from Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (1989), pp. 299f
  5. The following three governors are taken from Eck, "Über die prätorischen Prokonsulate", pp. 252f
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