Junius Valerius Bellicius

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Restoration inscription by Junius Valerius Bellicius ( CIL 06 40803 )

Iunius Valerius Bellicius was a Roman politician and of the highest senatorial rank ( vir illustris ) . He lived in late antiquity around the turn of the 4th to the 5th century and between the years 421 and 423, under the joint rule of the emperors Flavius ​​Honorius and Theodosius II , he was the city-prefecture of Rome . The name of the praefectus urbi and his term of office are known to research through the fasts of the period from 408 to 421 and the so-called Bellicius inscriptions .

During his tenure, Iunius Valerius Bellicius had the buildings relevant to the city prefecture, which were probably located near the Tellus Temple on the Esquiline, restored. This included the official seat ( secretarium tellurense ) of the city prefect, which included the court ( tribunalia ) as well as the work and archive rooms ( scrinia ). This praefectus urbi was also responsible for the repair work on the Colosseum . After the invasion of the Goths under Alaric in 410, the buildings were in dire need of renovation.

So far, the late antique office of the city prefect and the temple of Tellus in Rome cannot be located archaeologically . Only through the numerous inscriptions found in the vicinity of today's church of San Pietro in Vincoli and in the area of ​​Via della Polveriera, different plausible conclusions can be drawn in modern research about the location of the likely neighboring building complexes. In addition, it is also considered likely that the podium of the Tellus Temple could be included by the city prefects in conducting public court hearings.

literature

  • Roland Färber: The official seats of the city prefects in late ancient Rome and Constantinople. In: Felix Arnold, Alexandra W. Busch , Rudolf Haensch , Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt (eds.): Places of rule. Characteristics of ancient centers of power (= people - cultures - traditions. Studies from the research clusters of the German Archaeological Institute , research cluster 3: Political spaces. Volume 3). Leidorf, Rahden / Westf. 2012, ISBN 978-3-86757-383-2 , pp. 49-71, here: The Bellicius inscriptions and the Secretarium Tellurense , pp. 50-60, pp. 65, 66. ( Online ).
  • PLRE II, Iunius Valerius Bellicius , p. 223 (Googlebook)

Remarks

  1. ↑ André Chastagnol : Les fastes de la Préfecture de Rome au Bas-Empire (= Études prosopographiques. Volume II). Nouvelles Editions Latines, Paris 1962, p. 290
  2. ↑ CIL 06, 31959 , 1st restoration inscription by Iunius Valerius Bellicus , site near the church of San Pietro in Vincoli
  3. ↑ CIL 06, 40803 , 2nd restoration inscription by Iunius Valerius Bellicus , site on the Caelius hill
  4. ^ André Chastagnol : La préfecture urbaine à Rome sous le Bas-Empire (= Publications de la Faculté des Lettres d'Alger. Volume 34). Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1960, pp. 247, 248
  5. ↑ CIL 06, 32085
  6. ↑ Silvia Orlandi: II Colosseo nel V secolo, in The Transformation of Urbs Roma in Late Antiquity , Portsmouth 1999, pp. 249-263, here pp. 252-254
  7. ^ Ralf Behrwald : The city as a museum? The perception of the monuments of Rome in late antiquity , Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-05-004288-6 , The Imperial Self-Presentation pp. 33–67, here pp. 51, 52
personal data
SURNAME Bellicius, Iunius Valerius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Valerius Bellicius, Iunius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman civil servant and military person
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century