Lucius Bovius Celer

Lucius Bovius Celer (full name form Lucius Bovius Luci filius Luci nepos Falerna Celer ) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) living in the 1st century AD . Individual stations in his career are known through an inscription that was found in Puteoli and that is dated to AD 97/110.

Celer was initially Duumvir , Quaestor and Augur in his hometown before becoming Praefectus fabrum . This was followed by his only military command as a tribunus militum in the Legio III Cyrenaica , which was stationed in the province of Aegyptus . Afterwards he was responsible as procurator for the gladiator school in Alexandria ( procurator ludi familiae gladiatoriae Caesaris Alexandriae ad Aegyptum ); this post was probably associated with an annual income of 60,000 sesterces . After his return to Italy he was appointed by the emperor to a college of judges ( adlectus inter selectos from Imperatore Caesare Augusto ), which was responsible for civil proceedings.

Celer was enrolled in the Falerna tribe and probably came from Puteoli. He had the inscription erected for himself and his wife Sextia Nerula , with whom he lived for 31 years. Another inscription, dated 91/100, is found on the tombstone for his daughter Lucilla , who died at the age of eight.

literature

Walter Henze : Bovius 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 799.
Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain , Paris 1960, volume 1.

Remarks

↑ Hans-Georg Pflaum assumes that Imperatore Caesare Augusto refers to Domitian (81–96), who after his murder fell into the Damnatio memoriae , so that his name was not mentioned in the inscription. Other historians such as Emil Ritterling and Hermann Dessau assumed that this meant Augustus himself.

Individual evidence

^ Inscription from Puteoli ( CIL 10, 1685 ).
↑ Hans-Georg Pflaum , Les Carrières, pp. 126–128, No. 55.
↑ Inscription from Puteoli ( CIL 10, 1686 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Bovius Celer, Lucius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Roman officer (imperial era)
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century
DATE OF DEATH	1st century or 2nd century

[AN4-2] Hans-Georg Pflaum assumes that Imperatore Caesare Augusto refers to Domitian (81–96), who after his murder fell into the Damnatio memoriae , so that his name was not mentioned in the inscription. Other historians such as Emil Ritterling and Hermann Dessau assumed that this meant Augustus himself.

[IN1-1] Inscription from Puteoli ( CIL 10, 1685 ).

[hgp-3] Hans-Georg Pflaum , Les Carrières, pp. 126–128, No. 55.

[IN2-4] Inscription from Puteoli ( CIL 10, 1686 ).