Pontius Asclepiodotus

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Pontius Asclepiodotus (* 4th century; † unknown) was the Roman governor of the province of Alpes Graiae and Vallis Poenina .

Life

377 known in customs province governor Pontius Asclepiodotus to Christianity and donated, on behalf of Emperor Gratian , a place of worship, but possibly also an administrative building.

According to a Roman inscription from 377 AD - today walled in the entrance hall of the town hall of Sion - Asclepiodotus was a knight ( vir perfectissimus ) and governor ( praeses ) of the province of Alpes Graiae, the center of the province was Axima (in Latin also Forum Claudii Ceutronum ), today's Aime- en-Tarentaise, and Poeninae, which corresponds to today's Wallis . The attached Christ monogram in the form of the Greek letters Chi and Rho (☧) shows the building inscription as the oldest datable testimony to the Christianization of Valais and all of today's Switzerland; Christianity gradually asserted itself against the Gallo-Roman religions and the Mithras cult , so that the Roman religion ended in the 5th century.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ manners | eLexicon | Cultural history - manners and customs. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Christoph Jörg: The inscriptions of the canton of Valais until 1300 . P. 377 f. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-090599-1 ( google.de [accessed on September 14, 2019]).
  3. ^ Building inscription by Pontius Asclepiodotus. Retrieved September 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Pontius Asclepiodotus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman governor
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century
DATE OF DEATH 4th or 5th century