Quintus Lollius Urbicus

The inscription ( RIB 1276 )

Quintus Lollius Urbicus was a Roman politician and military leader of the 2nd century AD.

Urbicus came from Tiddis in Numidia , where he had a tomb erected for family members and a statue was erected for him as patron of the city on the forum , the inscription of which has been preserved. It lists the stations of his senatorial career ( cursus honorum ) . He was (around the year 121) Quattuorvir viarum curandarum (an office in the Vigintivirat ), military tribune in the Legio XXII Primigenia (stationed in Mogontiacum ), Quaestor urbanus in Rome, then Urbicus was legate of the proconsul of the province of Asia , tribune and praetor , both at the suggestion of the emperor, and from 130 to 133 legates of the Legio X Gemina , which was stationed in Vindobona . Also as a legate, he took part in Emperor Hadrian's campaign to suppress the Jewish uprising under Bar Kochba and was awarded the hasta pura .

While Hadrian was still alive, Lollius Urbicus became a suffect consul (perhaps 135), fetiale and governor of the province of Germania inferior . In the first years of the reign of Antoninus Pius he was governor of Britain , where he is documented by several inscriptions, and had the so-called Antonine Wall built in what is now Scotland. Later he was still proconsul of the province of Africa and about 146-160 Praefectus urbi .

Web links

Commons : Quintus Lollius Urbicus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 2505 - Quintus Lollius Urbicus. Roman Inscriptions of Britain (RIB), accessed February 26, 2020 . 

literature

• Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Roman civil servant careers (= small writings on the knowledge of the Roman occupation history of Southwest Germany. 16). Limesmuseum, Aalen 1977, pp. 50-55.

Remarks

1. ↑ CIL 8, 6705 .
2. ↑ CIL 8, 6706 .
3. ↑ Inscriptions ( RIB 1147 , RIB 1148 , RIB 1276 , RIB 2191 , RIB 2192 ).