Literaturkritik 737 David Rafferty, Provincial Allocations in Rome, 123–52 BCE, Stuttgart (Franz Steiner Verlag) 2019 (Historia Einzelschriften 254) 243 S., ISBN 978-3-515-12119-4 (geb.), € 54,– Besprochen von Alejandro Díaz Fernández, E-Mail: alediaz@uma.es https://doi.org/10.1515/klio-2021-3006 David R(afferty), University of Adelaide, makes in this book a major contribution to a better understanding of the institutional procedures involved in allocating provinces in the Late Republic. More concretely, the author focuses on the period between the passing of the lex Sempronia de provinciis in 123 and the lex Pompeia de provinciis ordinandis of 52, which represented a watershed in the workings of Roman administration by separating the tenure of a magistracy from pro- vincial command. R. does not offer an overall study of provincial command, as other scholars have done over the last few years (see F. K. Drogula, Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire, Chapel Hill 2015), but instead deals with a specific aspect of provincial management – the allocation – during a specific part of the Republican period, the barely seventy years between the laws mentioned. As far as we know, there was no study specifically on that subject, which means that the work is a welcome and worthwhile contribution to the study of the Roman institutional system. The choice of time frame is fully justified, since the period is clearly defined by two measures that both constitute milestones in how the Republic assigned prov- inces. At the same time, it allows a proper assessment of the true impact of Sulla’s dictatorship on provincial administration. In that regard, R.’s volume contributes to the necessary work of reviewing the effect of Sulla’s laws on Republican insti- tutions, as some scholars have done in recent decades (see A. Giovannini, Consu- lare imperium, Basel 1983, and, more recently, F. Pina Polo, The Consul at Rome, Cambridge 2011, and F. Vervaet, The High Command in the Roman Republic. The Principle of the summum imperium auspiciumque from 509 to 19 BCE, Stuttgart