Gnaeus Papirius Aelianus
Gnaeus Papirius Aelianus Aemilius Tuscillus was a
military diplomas.[1] Aelianus is best known for being governor of Roman Britain
in 146.
Dacia Superior named on a building inscription dated to 132 at Sarmizegetusa.[4]
Little is known of his tenure in Britain, although Aelianus was probably in charge of the occupation of the Scottish Lowlands following its reconquest by Quintus Lollius Urbicus. This may have been peaceful as he was able to spare troops to take part in the Moorish campaign of 145–47.[5] Nor is anything known of Aelianus after he left Britain. Birley notes "it may be presumed that the homonymous cos. ord. of 184 was his grandson."[6]
References
- ^ Werner Eck, Paul Holder and Andreas Pangerl, "A Diploma for the Army of Britain in 132 and Hadrian's Return to Rome from the East", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 174 (2010), p. 194
- ^ a b Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 117
- ^ Richard Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton: University Press, 1984), p. 16
- ^ Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 116f
- ^ Sheppard Frere, Britannia, Revised Edition (London: Routledge & Keegan Paul, 1978), pp. 165, 176
- ^ Birley, Fasti, p. 118