Gaius Petronius (suffect consul 25)

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Gaius Petronius (* around 18 BC (?); † after 29 AD) was a Roman politician and probably a suffect consul of the year 25 AD. He belonged to the important Petronii family without cognomen.

Gaius Petronius, not to be confused with the author of Satyricon , who is often mentioned as well , was possibly a younger brother of Publius Petronius , suffect consul of 19, and thus probably a son of Petronius Turpilianus . He was perhaps the father of a Petronia (wife of Galeo Tettienus) and possibly the adoptive father of Gaius Petronius Pontius Nigrinus , consul of the year 37.

The only inscribed testimony of Gaius Petronius consists of a tessera nummularia , which has only survived in fragments , on which he is named as consul on September 5, together with M. Asin [ius Agrippa] (?):

n [onis] Sep [tembribus] M. Asin. C. Pet. Cos.

It is concluded from this that Gaius Petronius moved up to the post of suffect consul in place of Cossus Cornelius Lentulus in addition to the year-round consul Marcus Asinius Agrippa, instead of Cossus Cornelius Lentulus .

From the year 29 there is a papyrus that proves Egyptian possessions for a Gaius Petronius and (his brother?) Publius:

τὰ ἄμμινα ἐποικἰου Ποπλἰου καὶ Γαἰου Πετρωνἰων

This family property, to which other papyri indicate, perhaps goes back to the term of office of the grandfather Publius Petronius , who lived in the years from approx. 25 to 21 BC. Was prefect of Egypt.

Borghesi identified Gaius Petronius with Gaius Petronius Umbrinus , who appeared before the year 24 as curator locorum publicorum iudicandorum . However, this is very doubtful, especially since in the first half of the 1st century all consular Petronii came from the Petronii family branch without cognomen.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Publius was older because he was the first to reach the consulate. In addition, Publius is mentioned in the first place in the Egyptian papyrus mentioned below.
  2. ^ As the first Borghesi opp. III 343, so still the PIR² P 266 and P 812.
  3. ↑ CIL 1, 766 .
  4. ^ As the first Borghesi opp. III 343.
  5. ↑ Papyrus Rylands 2, 127, 4f.
  6. ^ BGU 2, 650 = Wilcken , Chrestomathie 365 from the year 46/47; SB 6, 9224 II 24 (from the year 50/51); an unedited papyrus in the catalog HP Kraus Greek Pap. No. 9 (Nero period) sh. J. Sijpesteijn in ZPE 63 (1986) 296 note 3; see. a. BGU 2, 599 = Wilcken Chrestomathie 363. To P. Giss. 1, 101 cf. GM Parassoglu, Imperial Estates in Roman Egypt (1978) 16 Note 6, who doubts that the Petronii mentioned here were the consuls of the years 19 and 19. 25 are, differently Bagnall (1985) 92; see. PIR² P 267.
  7. ↑ Borghesi opp. III 343.
  8. ↑ CIL 6, 1266 .
  9. ↑ Mommsen (1878) 106, note 2; Hanslik (1938) col. 1199; PIR² P 266.
personal data
SURNAME Petronius, Gaius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman politician, suffect consul 25 AD
DATE OF BIRTH around 18 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 29