Praefectus civitatis
The Praefectus civitatis had been the holder of a higher administrative office since the early Roman Empire, serving as military administrator or governor of a newly conquered, far from the provincial capital and not yet completely pacified region on the borders of the Roman Empire (for example in Illyria , Noricum or Asturias ) before the region was finally converted into a Roman province . The best-known representative of this office was probably Pontius Pilate , who was praefectus civitatis of Judea in AD 26–36 . The praefectus civitatis always came from the Roman knighthood ; The post was preceded by a military career.
literature
- Wilhelm Enßlin : Praefectus civitatis. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXII, 2, Stuttgart 1954, Sp. 1290-1294.