Pomponius Bassus (Consul 271)

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Pomponius Bassus [...] stus was a Roman politician and senator of the 3rd century AD.

From its prenomen only the Greek (...) β (...) is preserved. This was dissolved earlier as Tiberius, but the "β" can also stand for another name, e.g. B. for (Φλά) β (іος), (Φά) β (іος) or (Ούί) β (іος).

Pomponius' career as an official is handed down through a Greek inscription; afterwards he was proconsul , probably of the province of Africa or Asia (after 259), then comes Augusti , perhaps under Emperor Gallienus or Claudius Gothicus ; after that he was corrector totius Italiae (governor of all Italy), probably around 268/269. In the year 271 Pomponius held the ordinary consulate ; the consul Bassus of 259, however, cannot have been Pomponius Bassus himself, but at most a son of his.

The city prefecture is probably occupied Pomponius in 270 or 271, since one usually held this position during or shortly after the consulate. However , Pomponius is not listed in the otherwise reliable register of the city prefects of the chronograph from 354 .

Pomponius was promagister of the college of priests of the pontifices . His wife was Pomponia Gratidia.

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Remarks

  1. among others G. Barbieri: L'albo senatorio da Settimio Severo a Carino (193-285). Rome 1952.
  2. ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum VI 3836 = 31747.
  3. ^ Michel Christol : Essai sur l'évolution des carrières sénatoriales dans la seconde moitié du III e s. ap. J.-C. Paris 1986, p. 224.
  4. Werner Eck, in: ZPE 18, 1975, pp. 92-93.