Quintus Gavius Fulvius Tranquillus
Quintus Gavius Fulvius Tranquillus was a Roman senator from the Gavier dynasty in the 2nd half of the 2nd century and early 3rd century AD , who had their seat in the country town of Caiatia, today's Caiazzo in Falernus ager in northern Campania had.
Quintus Gavius Fulvius Tranquillus was most likely the son of the officer and patron of Caiatia, Quintus Gavius Fulvius Proculus . He began his senatorial career ( cursus honorum ) with an unusual double bursary . According to an inscription from Caiatia, he was both quaestor urbanus in Rome and quaestor of the proconsul of the province of Gallia Narbonensis . At that time Gavius Tranquillus must have been between 25 and 30 years old.
Q (uinto) Gavio Q (uinti) f (ilio)
Fal (erna) Fulvio
Tranquillo
quaest (ori) urbis
quaest (ori) provinc (iae)
Narbonensis
ordo dec (urionum) et
populus
patrono mun [ific (entissimo)]
Translation:
“To the extremely generous patron Quintus Gavius Fulvius Tranquillus, son of Quintus from the Falernische ( tribe ), (former) quaestor of Rome, quaestor of the province of Narbonensis. According to the decision of the municipal council and the people. "
Deserved citizens of a community like Gavius Tranquillus had various duties to assume. It was one of their tasks to provide financial support to local public construction activities and to organize festivals.
Another, precisely datable inscription from Takina in Asia Minor names a Gavius Tranquillus 212/213 as proconsul, probably from the province of Lycia et Pamphylia . The proconsul could also have been a son of Quintus Gavius Fulvius Tranquillus, honored in Caiatia.
literature
- Werner Eck : Gavius [II 12]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , column 815.
- Claus-Michael Hüssen : Q. Gavius Fulvius Proculus - praefectus, tribunus, patronus. On the new discovery of a Diana inscription in Gnotzheim and on CIL X 4579. In: Germania , Volume 79 (2), 2001, pp. 309-324.
Remarks
- ↑ CIL 10,4580 .
- ↑ Claus-Michael Hüssen: Q. Gavius Fulvius Proculus - praefectus, tribunus, patronus. On the new discovery of a Diana inscription in Gnotzheim and on CIL X 4579. In: Germania , Volume 79 (2), 2001, pp. 309-324; here: p. 321.
- ↑ Claus-Michael Hüssen: Q. Gavius Fulvius Proculus - praefectus, tribunus, patronus. On the new discovery of a Diana inscription in Gnotzheim and on CIL X 4579. In: Germania , Volume 79 (2), 2001, pp. 309-324; here: p. 315.
- ^ Sencer Şahin , David H. French: A document from Takina . In: Epigraphica Anatolica . 10, 1987, pp. 133–145 (= Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum 37, 1186), lines 19–20: ἀντίγραφον ἐπιστ (ολῆς) ἀνθ (υπάτου) Γαουίου Τρακν̣πλλλου Τρακν̣πλλον Τρακνς ρλθου [ρανς νοτου] (ολῆς) ν βουλῆ] ι̣ δ̣ή̣μ̣ω̣ι̣ ναϲ χαίρειν “Copy of a letter from the proconsul Gavius Tranquillus. Gavius Tranquillus, proconsul, greets the council and people of Takina ”.
- ↑ Claus-Michael Hüssen: Q. Gavius Fulvius Proculus - praefectus, tribunus, patronus. On the new discovery of a Diana inscription in Gnotzheim and on CIL X 4579. In: Germania , Volume 79 (2), 2001, pp. 309-324; here: p. 323.
- ↑ On the question of which province (Asia or Lycia et Pamphylia) the Gavius Tranquillus named in the inscription was: Peter Eich : On the metamorphosis of the political system in the Roman Empire. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004110-2 , pp. 304–305 ( Klio , Beihefte, NF, Volume 9. Restricted preview in the Google book search).
- ↑ Giuseppe Camodeca : Un nuovo procon sole del tempo di Caracalla ei Gavii Tranquilli di Caiatia . In: Ostraka . 3, 1994, pp. 467-471 (not viewed; cf. Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum 44, 1145).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gavius Fulvius Tranquillus, Quintus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fulvius Tranquillus, Quintus Gavius; Tranquillus, Quintus Gavius Fulvius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | roman senator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century or 3rd century |