Marcus Campanius Marcellus

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Marcus Campanius Marcellus (full name form Marcus Campanius Marci filius Marci nepos Falerna Marcellus ) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) living in the 2nd century AD . Individual stations in his career are known through an inscription dated 151/200. His career is in the inscription as cursus inversus , d. H. in descending order.

The military career of Marcellus consisted of the usual Tres militiae for a member of the equestrian order . He initially took over the management of the Cohors III Breucorum as prefect . He then became tribune of the Cohors I Hemesenorum , which was stationed in the province of Pannonia inferior . The third stage was the command as prefect of an Ala Parthorum .

Then Marcellus held civil posts in the administration. He was initially procurator in the province of Cyprus ; this post was likely associated with an annual income of 60,000 sesterces . He next became procurator Augustorum ad Mercurium Alexandriae ; this post was linked to an annual income of 100,000 sesterces. In this function he was responsible for the granaries in Alexandria and thus took over the role of Praefectus annonae in the city.

Marcellus was enrolled in the Falerna tribe . He came from Capua , where the inscription was also made for him.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ On the basis of the gentile name , Hans-Georg Pflaum suspects that one of the ancestors was probably a slave, so that Marcellus emphasized in the inscription that his grandfather was already a Roman citizen.
  2. ↑ There were several units with this designation (see Ala Parthorum ). The inscription does not reveal which unit Marcellus commanded. Hans-Georg Pflaum and David L. Kennedy assign it to the Ala Parthorum (Cappadocia) , which was stationed in the province of Cappadocia .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inscription ( CIL 10, 3847 )
  2. ↑ John Spaul : Cohors² The evidence for and a short history of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army , British Archaeological Reports 2000, BAR International Series (Book 841), ISBN 978-1841710464 , p 321st
  3. ^ A b c Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les Carrières , pp. 419-420, no. 171.
  4. ↑ David L. Kennedy: Parthian Regiments in the Roman army in J. Fitz (ed.) Limes. Files of the XI International Limes Congress (Akadémiai Kiadó. Hungarian Academy of the Sciences), Budapest 1977, pp. 521-531, here pp. 525-526 ( online ).
  5. ↑ John EH Spaul : Ala The Auxiliary Cavalry units of the pre-Diocletianic Imperial Roman Army. Nectoreca Press, Andover 1994, ISBN 0-9525062-0-3 , p. 176.
personal data
SURNAME Campanius Marcellus, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campanius Marci filius Marci nepos Falerna Marcellus, Marcus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman officer (imperial era)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century or 3rd century