Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus

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The military diploma of AD 149

Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus was a Roman senator , politician, and officer. He was probably born in the last years of the 1st century AD and died in 180 AD or shortly before.

Life

On the Trajan's Forum in Rome the base of an honorary statue erected by the Senate at the instigation of Marcus Aurelius, on whose inscription his full name is given. His father was perhaps Pontius Laelianus, who was mentioned in the so-called Testamentum Dasumii from the summer of 108, which was discovered in the Catacomb of Calixtus in Rome. According to the ancient historian Géza Alföldy (1935-2011), the suffect consul of the year 153, Marcus Pontius Sabinus , could be a younger brother of Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius. Alföldy presumed the Gaulish Baeterrae, now Béziers, to be the place of origin of the two .

The course honorum of Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus spans from the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117-138) to that of Antoninus Pius (138-161) up to Mark Aurel (161-180). He began his career as a quatuorvir viarum curandarum (civil servant). During his first military command as a military tribune (tribunus laticlavius) of the Legio VI Victrix , the Legion was moved from the Lower Germanic Vetera to the British Eburacum (York) before July 17, 122 . The then Lower Germanic governor, Aulus Platorius Nepos , under whom he took up his service, became governor of Britain at the same time. After Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus had completed his three-year military service as a tribune, he was around 25 years old. He was then quaestor of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis , civil servant from actis senatus , tribune of the people as candidatus Hadrians, praetor , curator rei publicae of the southern Gaulish Civitas Arausicensis ( Orange ) and around 140 legate of Legio I Minervia , which was stationed in Bonn .

In 141, Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus became governor of the province of Pannonia Inferior (Lower Pannonia) and moved into its capital, Aquincum ( Budapest ). His immediate predecessor in office may have been Statilius Maximus, who, according to Alfoldy, is not identical to Titus Statilius Maximus . According to more recent considerations, Claudius Maximus ( suffect consul 142 or 143) could also have been the immediate predecessor of the Pontius. Diplomas like that of August 7th, 143 call Pontius Laelianus Larcius in Lower Pannonia. According to a fragmentary constitution from September / October 145 found in Aquincum, his successor Quintus Fuficius Cornutus was already in office at this time .

Following this governorship, Pontius Laelianus was together with Quintus Mustius Priscus a suffect consul. A grave inscription from Rome names the two as incumbents on August 2nd - as was long believed in the year 144. However, an unpublished military diploma from Arabia at the beginning of the 21st century proved that he had only held this office in 145.

On a constitution of July 19, 146, Pontius Laelianus Larcius is already governor of the province of Pannonia superior (Upper Pannonia) with its seat in Carnuntum . He had taken over the office from his predecessor Statilius Hadrianus . His last known nomination in this function relates to July 5th, 149, so that his successor, Claudius Maximus , could have assumed the stewardship this year as well. Then Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus was transferred to Antioch on the Orontes in Syria in the same capacity . There he took office in August 150 at the latest. A Cippus discovered in the area of Palmyra in December 153 proves, in addition to his Cursus honorem , that he had restored the fines regionis Palmyrenae - the national borders - on behalf of the Emperor Antoninus Pius .

Together with a number of capable officers such as the Praetorian prefect Titus Furius Victorinus and the war hero Marcus Statius Priscus Licinius Italicus , after the termination of his Syrian governorship as comes (military companion) , Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius accompanied the unexperienced fellow emperor Lucius Verus (161–169) on his campaign against the Parthians , which lasted from 161 to 166. In 163 Verus had set up his court in Antioch on the Orontes, in the same year Armenia was recaptured. As a discipline officer, Pontius Laelianus Larcius ensured the discipline and order of the army during this time. The campaign finally came to an official end on October 12, 166 with a great triumphal procession in Rome and Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus received various military awards from Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

During his next assignment in the Germanic war of the two emperors, which lasted from 166 to 167, he was comes again and retained this title in 175. At that time, Mark Aurel received the nickname Germanicus Sarmaticus mentioned in the honorary inscription . Marcus Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus, who was also a member of various priesthoods ( Pontifex , Sodalis for the deified Verus, Fetialis ) died in 180 or shortly before.

Marcus Pontius Laelianus , a son of Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus, became an ordinary consul in 163 and 166/167 governor of the province of Moesia inferior (Lower Moesia ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CIL 6, 1497 .
  2. ↑ CIL 6, 10229 .
  3. ↑ Géza Alföldy: Consulate and senatorial status under the Antonines. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7749-1334-X , p. 314.
  4. ↑ CIL 16, 69 .
  5. ^ Jenő Fitz, Mátyás Esterházy: The administration of Pannonia in Roman times. Volume 2, Encyclopedia, 1993, ISBN 963-8477-00-8 , p. 440.
  6. ^ Edward Dąbrowa: The Governors of Roman Syria from Augustus to Septimius Severus. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-7749-2828-2 , p. 106.
  7. ↑ Géza Alföldy: Consulate and senatorial status under the Antonines. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1977, ISBN 3-7749-1334-X , p. 343.
  8. ↑ Barbara Pferdehirt: Roman military diplomas and certificates of discharge in the collection of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, part 1. Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-88467-086-7 , p. 87.
  9. ↑ AE 1999, 1353 .
  10. ↑ CIL 16,91 .
  11. ↑ CIL 6, 24162 .
  12. ↑ a b Géza Alföldy , Barnabás Lőrincz : A new military diploma fragment and a new governor of the province of Pannonia superior. In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy. Volume 139, 2002, pp. 211-218; here p. 217.
  13. ↑ Ioan Piso: Fasti Provinciae Daciae. The senatorial officials. Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-7749-2615-8 , p. 56.
  14. ^ Paul A. Holder (Ed.): Roman Military Diplomas V. University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London 2006, ISBN 1-905670-01-X , p. 810.
  15. ↑ CIL 16, 178 .
  16. ↑ CIL 16,97 .
  17. ↑ Barbara Pferdehirt: Roman military diplomas and dismissal certificates in the collection of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, part 1. Verlag des Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Mainz 2004, ISBN 3-88467-086-7 , p. 108.
  18. ↑ Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Archaeological evidence of the history of the marcomann wars (166-180 AD). In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum Mainz. 22, 1975, Darmstadt 1977, pp. 153-217; here p. 155.
  19. ↑ Jörg Rüpke, Anne Glock: Fasti sacerdotum. The members of the priesthoods and the sacred functional staff of Roman, Greek, Oriental and Judeo-Christian cults in the city of Rome from 300 BC. BC to AD 499 Part 2: Biographies. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-07456-2 , p. 1227.
  20. ↑ CIL 3, 6182
personal data
SURNAME Pontius Laelianus Larcius Sabinus, Marcus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman governor
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH at 180