housed in the museum there. The significance of this inscription is less in what the inscription says than in the fact that it mentions in lines 5–6 a person named Lucius Junius Gallio, proconsul of Achaia. The inscription records an edict by the Roman emperor Claudius (A.D. 41–54) referring to Gallio as proconsul. The significance of this inscription for establishing certain facts and dates in early Christian chronology, especially in the book of Acts, cannot be overlooked. Unfortunately, placing
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