Lucius Valerius Proculus
Lucius Valerius Proculus was a Roman eques who held a number of military and civil appointments during the reigns of the Emperors Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius. He is known primarily from inscriptions and non-literary papyrus.
The career of Valerius Proculus is documented in an inscription recovered from
At this point the civil track of his career begins. First Proculus was appointed
Proculus then advanced to two senior appointments. First was as praefectus annonae, or overseer of the grain supply of Rome; he held this position from 142 to 144.[3] The second was the related but more prestigious post of prefect or governor of Roman Egypt, which he held from 144 to 147.[4]
Apparently after concluding his service in Egypt, Valerius Proculus retired to Málaga, for the inscription that details his career was set up to honor him and his wife Valeria Lucilla as civic patrons.
References
- ^ CIL II, 1970 = ILS 1341
- ^ CIL XIV, 2957
- ^ CIL VI, 1002
- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 289
Further reading
- Wolfgang Habermann, "Zum Ende der Amtszeit des Präfekten L. Valerius Proculus" Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 117 (1997), pp. 180–182