Sextus Baius Pudens

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Sextus Baius Pudens (* in Cures (?); † between 180 and 192 in Cures) was a Roman knight who worked as a civil servant and governor in the second half of the 2nd century AD. He is mentioned on some inscriptions found in different places of the former Roman Empire . This makes it possible to reconstruct some sections of his curriculum vitae. What is certain is that he first went through the fixed stations of a chivalric career, as provided for by the state reforms for chivalric positions carried out during the reign of Emperor Claudius (41–54). These primarily included the tres militiae , three knightly posts in which the knight first had to prove himself as prefect of an auxiliary troop cohort , as a military tribune and finally as prefect of a cavalry regiment.

His work as a cohort prefect is still unknown and the duration of his military tribunate also remains in the dark. A dedicatory inscription from Rome, put up in 153, names Baius Pudens as the tribune, probably the Equites singulares .

After his purely military career, Sextus Baius Pudens held various procuratory governorships. From 162/163 he was likely to have administered the province of Raetia as procurator with official seat in Augsburg for around three years . An inscription from the Aalen fort that names him can be dated to the years 163/164. In 166 at the latest he handed over this office to his successor, the knight Titus Desticius Severus . The first known inscription of Titus Desticius Severus in his function as Rhaetian procurator comes from this year. After 166, probably from its mention in 167, Baius Pudens took over the governorship of the African province of Mauretania Caesariensis with its seat in Caesarea . He is likely to have left North Africa around 169 AD. His time as administrator of the province of Noricum , whose political center at that time was in the Municipium Claudium Virunum , was assigned very differently in the past, but it seems to have been the 1970s. In the time of its procuratorship of 166 to 180 were sustained Marcomannic wars , the waste also parts of Noricum. Possibly he was the last procurator of this province before the reforms of the emperor Mark Aurel (161 to 180) were implemented.

Baius Pudens owned a villa near today's Fara in Sabina , which is in the old Sabine country near the ancient city of Cures . At that time, this area was a particularly preferred area of ​​the Roman upper class and was located about 36 kilometers from Rome on the Via Salaria . It is possible that he was born in this region.

Sextus Baius Pudens died during the reign of Emperor Commodus (180 to 192). His grave inscription was found in the urban area of ​​Cures. Maybe he died in his villa.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brian Dobson: The Primipilares: u development. Meaning, careers, etc. Personalities of a Roman officer rank . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-7927-0251-7 , p. 78.
  2. ^ AE 1951, 184 .
  3. ↑ Michael P. Speidel : The monuments of the Kaiserreiter (= Bonner Jahrbücher, supplements. 50). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne and Habelt, Bonn 1994, ISBN 3-7927-1189-3 , p. 63.
  4. ^ AE 1986, 528 .
  5. ↑ CIL 16, 121 . Cf. Géza Alföldy: Cities, Elites and Society in Gallia Cisalpina . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, p. 91 with footnote.
  6. ↑ CIL 8, 20835 and CIL 8, 20835 , two building inscriptions from Rapidum .
  7. ↑ Willem Zwikker: studies Markus Pillar I . NV Noerd-Hollandsche, Amsterdam 1941. p. 184. Further inscriptions from Mauritania that Baius Pudens name: AE 1948, 132 , a building inscription from Tigava ; CIL 8, 20961 a consecration of Baius Pudens after having fulfilled his vows, from Caesarea; CIL 8, 21007 , grave inscription for a freedman of the procurator.
  8. ↑ Gerhard Winkler: The imperial officials of Noricum and their staff until the end of Roman rule . Böhlau, Vienna 1969, p. 61.
  9. ^ Jochen Werner Mayer: Imus ad villam: Studies on Villeggiatur in the urban Roman suburbium in the late republic and early imperial times . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-515-08787-7 , p. 87.
  10. ↑ Gerhard Winkler: The imperial officials of Noricum and their staff until the end of Roman rule . Böhlau, Vienna 1969, p. 60.
  11. ↑ CIL 9, 4964 .
  12. ↑ Another inscription from Cures ( AE 1929, 160 ) perhaps mentions the function of Praetorian prefect for Baius , but the addition is uncertain.
personal data
SURNAME Baius Pudens, Sextus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pudens, Sextus Baius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Roman civil servant and governor
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd century
PLACE OF BIRTH Cures
DATE OF DEATH between 180 and 192
Place of death Cures