Marcus Petronius Honoratus

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Marcus Petronius Honoratus was a 2nd century Roman knight . He came from the Quirina tribe , an area around Reate , the former capital of the Sabines .

Marcus Petronius Honoratus went through the fixed stations of a knightly career as it had developed in the course of the early imperial era . These primarily included the tres militiae , three knightly posts in which the knight had to prove himself first as prefect of an auxiliary troop cohort , as a military tribune and finally as prefect of a cavalry regiment ( Ala ). So he took over at the beginning of his military career, probably during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117-138) as Praefectus cohorti, the leadership of a Cohors I Raetorum (1st cohort of Raeter ). He then served as a military tribune in the Legio I Minervia , which had its headquarters in Lower Germany . The end of his exclusively military career formed the command of the Ala Augusta II pia fidelis Thracum , which was in the province of Mauretania Caesariensis .

Following the purely military career, a knightly civil servant career probably followed under Emperor Antoninus Pius (138–161). Marcus Petronius Honoratus became head of an imperial mint ( procurator monetae ); this post was linked to an annual income of 100,000 sesterces . He then became procurator of inheritance tax ( XX hereditatium ); this post was associated with an annual income of 200,000 sesterces. Probably in the years from 138 to 140 he exercised the power of attorney in the provinces of Belgica , Germania inferior and Germania superior . This was followed by the rise to the high office of imperial accounting officer ( procurator a rationibus ). Then Marcus Petronius Honoratus officiated as Praefectus annonae , where he was responsible for the grain supply of the provinces. At the end of his recorded career, he was appointed governor of the imperial province of Egypt from 147 to 148 ; as Praefectus Aegypti he is documented by several inscriptions from August 29, 147 to November 11, 148.

During his service in the provinces, Marcus Petronius Honoratus evidently maintained friendly contacts with the local, Romanized aristocratic class. This is evidenced by an inscription dedicated to him, donated by a Iulius Lupercus and a Claudia Victorina, both of the Treveri tribe. Presumably he was related to Marcus Petronius Mamertinus , whose influence likely boosted Honoratus' career.

The further development of Marcus Petronius Honoratus has not been conclusively handed down after the end of his prefecture in Egypt in 148. However, there is evidence that after his Egyptian governorship, an honorary statue was erected in Rome, which was donated to him, as patron of the oil traders from the southern Spanish province of Baetica , by the managing directors Cassius Faustus and Caecilius Honoratus. At the end of the list of his career, the priesthood of pontifex minor is mentioned.

Striking and indicative of the continuity of a knightly career is that the career of Marcus Petronius Honoratus was almost identical to that of his predecessor Lucius Valerius Proculus .

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Remarks

  1. ↑ There were three units with this designation (see Cohors I Raetorum ). The inscription does not reveal which unit Honoratus commanded. Hans-Georg Pflaum and Jan Kees Haalebos assign him to the Cohors I Raetorum (Germania) , which was stationed in the province of Germania inferior .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CIL 6, 01625a
  2. ↑ a b c Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les Carrières, pp. 283–286, no. 117.
  3. ↑ Jan Kees Haalebos : Traian and the auxiliary troops on the Lower Rhine A military diploma of the year 98 AD from Elst in the Over-Betuwe (Netherlands) In: Saalberg Jahrbuch , 2000/50, p. 49 ( online ).
  4. ↑ CIL 16,00056
  5. ↑ Patrimonium and Fiscus, inaugural dissertation by Sabine Schmall, Bonn 2011 p. 449 PDF
  6. ^ Inscriptions ( AE 1904, 218 , AE 1939, 311 , CIL 14, 4458 ).
  7. ↑ Lothar Wierschowski : Strangers in Gaul - "Gauls" in foreign countries. The epigraphically attested mobility in, from and to Gaul from the 1st to the 3rd century AD. Texts, translations, commentaries. Steiner, Stuttgart 2001 ( CIL VI 1625a ).
  8. ↑ CIL 6, 01625b
  9. ↑ Ulrich Huttner : Römische Antike (= study of history. UTB, Bd. 3122). 2nd updated edition, Francke, Tübingen / Basel 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3919-0 , pp. 258–260 ( excerpt online ).
predecessor Office successor
Lucius Valerius Proculus Prefect of the Roman Province of Egypt
147–148 		Lucius Munatius Felix
personal data
SURNAME Petronius Honoratus, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prefect of the Province of Egypt, Roman Officer (Imperial Era)
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
PLACE OF BIRTH Quirina
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century