Quintus Baienus Blassianus

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Quintus Baienus Blassianus was a Roman knight from Tergeste (today's Trieste ) in the 2nd century AD.

Blassianus is known from several inscribed and papyrological sources: 1. six bases of honorary statues from the forum basilica of Tergeste ;; 2. an architrave from an unknown building from Aquileia ;; 3. fragmentary marble tablet from a statue base from Ostia , set by the Association of Builders ( fabri tignuarii ) who honored Baienus as their patron (166/7 AD); an Egyptian papyrus dated February 21, 168 AD and other papyri.

According to these inscriptions, Baienus Blassianus completed the three military commands customary for knights as prefect of the Cohors II Asturum (in Britain), as the military tribune of the Legio VII Claudia (stationed in Viminatium in Moesia) and as prefect of the Ala II Gallorum (in Cappadocia ). He then held numerous offices of the knightly career. He was procurator for the census in Cappadocia and Armenia minor , procurator of Mauretania Tingitana , Raetien , Lugdunensis and Aquitania , interrupted by two naval commands as prefect of the Classis Britannica (around 140 AD) and the fleet of Ravenna (around 160). Then he was probably procurator a rationibus in Rome (possibly instead Prefect of the Vigiles ), Prefect of Annona and, as the high point of his career, Prefect of Egypt ( praefectus Aegypti ). With the papyrus dated to the year 168, this prefecture offers the chronological starting point for the dating of the career, although the details can only be guesswork. Blassianus is believed to have been born shortly after the beginning of the 2nd century and to have held his first military functions in the Hadrian era.

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Web links

  • Fulvia Mainardis, Claudio Zaccaria: Tra epigrafia e papirologia. Q. Baienus Blassianus, cavaliere tergestino e prefetto d'Egitto. In: Franco Crevatin, Gennaro Tedeschi (eds.): Scrivere Leggere Interpretare. Studi di Antichità in onore di Sergio Daris. Edizioni Università di Trieste, Triest 2005, pp. 262–286 ( PDF, 5.4 MB ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ AE 1951, 279 ; CIL 5,539 ; Attilio Degrassi : Inscriptiones Italiae 10, 4, 39 (a), (b), (c), 10, 4, 40.
  2. ↑ Archäologische-Epigraphische Mitteilungen 4 (1880), p. 89, No. 3.
  3. ↑ CIL 14, 5341 = 5406.
  4. ↑ scrapbook 14, 11374 ( Memento of the original on 31 July 2009 at the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
  5. ↑ P. Oxy . 24, 2413 ; others still unpublished.
  6. ^ Fulvia Mainardis, Claudio Zaccaria: Tra epigrafia e papirologia. Q. Baienus Blassianus, cavaliere tergestino e prefetto d'Egitto. In: Franco Crevatin, Gennaro Tedeschi (eds.): Scrivere Leggere Interpretare. Studi di Antichità in onore di Sergio Daris. Edizioni Università di Trieste, Triest 2005, note 32. 33 with further literature.
  7. ↑ John EH Spaul : Governors of Tingitana , In: Antiquités africaines 30, 1994, pp. 235-260, here pp. 242-243 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Werner Eck, Hans Lieb: A diploma for the Classis Ravennas from November 22, 206 . In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 96 (1993), p. 86 ( PDF, 3.8 MB ).
predecessor Office successor
Titus Flavius ​​Titianus Prefect of the Roman Province of Egypt
167–168 		Marcus Bassaeus Rufus
personal data
SURNAME Baienus Blassianus, Quintus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blassianus, Quintus Baienus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman knight, prefect of Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century