An inscription from Delphi helps in dating Gallio’s term as proconsul of Achaia. (Ac 18:12) Only fragmentary, the inscription’s text has had to be reconstructed, but it definitely contains the name of “[Lucius Ju]nius Gallio, . . . proconsul.” Historians are generally agreed that the text is a letter from Emperor Claudius Caesar and that the number 26 found in it refers to Claudius’ having received the imperial acclamation for the 26th time. (It was Claudius who restored Achaia to the position of a separate province responsible to the senate and hence having a proconsul.) It is likely that this letter was written in the first half of 52 C.E., for other inscriptions indicate that Claudius was acclaimed emperor for the 27th time before August 1, 52 C.E.