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In the administrative history of Rome, curatura rei publicae which emerged in the reign of Domitian, and correctura that emerged in the reign of Traian are two new institutions. If one puts aside the contraversial status of the Rufus, the curator of Smyrna, the first examples of both institutions in Asia Minor are observed in the reign of Hadrian. Curatores rei publicae were the officials appointed by Rome, in case the traditional administrative staff of cities were unsufficent or in the face of the difficulty to sol¬ve the financial problems of cities. They served as the subject to the provincial governor and as a bridge between the Roman government and local government. Correctores, when¬ever they did not take over the provincial governorship as well, were the imperial legates within the imperium, who served independent from the provincial governor. Their span of authority was more extensive than curatores. The power of the correctores, unlike the curator rei publicae, was not limited to one or two cities, but included all the cities in the province or cities in a certain area in the province. Besides, they had the tasks of not only financial problems but also all the organizational problems. In this article, curatores rei publicae and correctores that served in the provincia Lycia et Pamphylia have been examined jointly. As a result of searching the sources and literature, the appointment of ten curator rei publicae and corrector to the cities of Lycia et Pamphylia were determined. Eight of them only served as curator rei publicae, one of them served both curator and corrector, one of them served as a corrector in the cities of Pamphylia. Appointments of them were in the period from 160’s, when government of provincia Lycia et Pamphylia transferred to the Senate, to the end of Principate. For this reason, to estimate how many curator and cor¬rector actually appointed, recognition level of the provincial governors is taken as an element of benchmarking. The recognition level of proconsuls of Lycia et Pamphylia is 25% in this period. By applying same rate to curatores and correctores, a total of 40 people, 32 of them as curatores, 8 of them as correctores may have been identified. The figures obtained indicate that the assignments of curatores and correctores to the province are extremely sporadic and irregular.