Abstract
This paper presents a new edition of a boundary stone between Capua (on Crete) and Knossos. I identify the post of Publius Messius Campanus asprocurator Campaniaerather thanprocurator Caesaris. The appearance of theprocurator Campaniaeon Crete is linked to a dispute between the colony of Capua and a private citizen called Plotius Plebeius. This new reading has several important historical consequences: first, it is the earliest attestation of aprocurator Campaniae(and the first outside Italy); second, it offers a new interpretation of the juridical category of Knossian lands as part of theager vectigalisof the Italian colony of Capua in the form of apraefectura CampanaorCapuensis; third, it proposes a reinterpretation of the process of arbitration between a public entity (Capua) and a private owner.
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