Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus

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Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus (fl. 3rd century) was a Roman military officer and senator, who served as governor of a number of provinces of the Roman East, including Galatia, Achaea, Bithynia and Pontus, Pannonia Inferior, and Asia. He has been called "the best documented governor of the province of Asia in the Imperial period" on account of the large number of surviving monuments erected in his honour.[1]

Biography

Egnatius Victor was a member of the third century

sodales Antoniniani. He was then appointed legatus Augusti pro praetore of Galatia in 218, before being appointed suffect consul in a nundinium sometime between 225 and 230.[2]

Around 230, Egnatius Victor was appointed

Alexander Severus
(222 – 235).

Egnatius Victor and his brother-in-law

Sassanid Empire. Egnatius Victor was retained as governor by Philip the Arab after the death of Gordian III, indicating he gave immediate support to Philip after he returned from the Persian campaign.[3] Finally, in 254, he was appointed Praefectus urbi of Rome by his brother-in-law Valerian
who had become emperor the year before.

Egnatius Victor was probably the brother of Egnatia Mariniana, who was the wife of Valerian and mother of Gallienus. It has been conjectured that he had a son named Egnatius Lucillianus;[4] however, a relationship between the imperial gens Egnatia and Egnatius Lucillianus has been described as very doubtful.[2] But in the case of his given great-grandchildren Quintus Flavius Maesius Egnatius Lollianus Mavortius and Egnatia Lolliana, his and her nomina Egnatius / Egnatia and their cognomina Lollianus / Lolliana point to a direct descent connection from him.

Sources

  • Herrmann, P.; Malay, H. (2003). "Statue bases of the mid third century A.D. from Smyrna". Epigraphica Anatolica. Zeitschrift für Epigraphik und historische Geographie Anatoliens, 36.2003: 1–10.
  • Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I 260–395 AD, Cambridge University Press (1971)
  • Mennen, Inge, Power and Status in the Roman Empire, 193–284 AD (2011)
  • Sourlas, Dimitrios (2019). "Lucius Egnatius Victor Lollianus: A New Honorific Inscription from Athens". In Norena, Carlos F.; Papazarkadas, Nikolaos (eds.). From document to history : epigraphic insights into the Greco-Roman world. Leiden. pp. 393–407.
    ISBN 9789004382879.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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References

  1. ^ Herrmann & Malay 2003, p. 2.
  2. ^ a b Mennen, p. 101
  3. ^ Mennen, pp. 101 & 103
  4. ^ Settipani, Christian, Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époque impériale (2000), pp. 398-400
Political offices
Preceded by
Uncertain
 Consul suffectus of the Roman Empire
between AD 225 and 230 		Succeeded by
Uncertain
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