Publius Fulcinius Vergilius Marcellus

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Publius Fulcinius Vergilius Marcellus was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) living in the 2nd century AD . Individual stations in his career are known through an inscription that was found near Tibur and which is dated to 121/160.

Marcellus was initially Praefectus fabrum . His subsequent military career he began as a tribunus militum in the Legio VII Gemina felix , whose main camp was in León . This was followed by the command as Praefectus equitum of an Ala Parthorum . He then took on civil functions in administration. His first position was that of subcurator aedium sacrarum et operum locorumque publicorum . This was followed by the post of a subpraefectus in the fleet stationed in Misenum ( Classis praetoria Misenensis ); both posts were linked to an annual income of 60,000 sesterces .

Marcellus was probably from Lazio , if not Rome itself.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire Romain , Paris 1960, volume 1.

Remarks

  1. ↑ There were several units with this designation (see Ala Parthorum ). The inscription does not reveal which unit Marcellus commanded. Hans-Georg Pflaum assigns him to the Ala Parthorum (Mauretania Caesariensis) , while David L. Kennedy thinks it is possible that he commanded the Ala Parthorum (Cappadocia) .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription ( AE 1894, 158 ).
  2. ↑ David L. Kennedy: Parthian Regiments in the Roman army in J. Fitz (ed.) Limes. Files of the XI International Limes Congress (Akadémiai Kiadó. Hungarian Academy of the Sciences), Budapest 1977, pp. 521-531, here pp. 523-525 ( online ).
  3. ↑ John EH Spaul : Ala The Auxiliary Cavalry units of the pre-Diocletianic Imperial Roman Army. Nectoreca Press, Andover 1994, ISBN 0-9525062-0-3 , p. 176.
  4. ↑ a b Hans-Georg Pflaum : Les Carrières , pp. 386–387, no. 160.
personal data
SURNAME Fulcinius Vergilius Marcellus, Publius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman officer (imperial era)
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century or 3rd century