Marcus Petronius Honoratus

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Marcus Petronius Honoratus was a Roman eques who held a number of military and civilian positions during the reigns of the Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, which included praefectus annonae and praefectus or governor of Roman Egypt.

Life

His career is documented in an inscription found at Rome, which was erected by negotiatores ole[ari] ex Baetica, or oil merchants from

. This concluded his military career.

At this point Honoratus began his civilian career, probably after the beginning of the reign of Antoninus Pius. He became procurator monetae, or head of the imperial mint, which received an annual income of 100,000

Alpes Maritimes before advancing to procurator of imperial properties in Asturia and Galicia.[2]

Here Honoratus received a series of appointments to senior equestrian positions. D'Escurac agrees with

suffect consul in 150 AD and governor of Egypt several years before Honoratus.[3] Honoratus returned to Rome to serve as procurator a rationibus, or head of the accounting section, and remained in Rome as annonae praefectus, or overseer of the grain supply for the capital city. Then he was appointed praefectus or governor of Egypt from 147 to 148 AD; several primary sources attest to his presence there from August 29, 147 to November 11, 148 AD, and because his successor is not attested before 150, Honoratus could have remained in office through 149 AD.[4]

His presence as annonae praefectus therefore is placed before 147. He assumed this post as the immediate successor of Lucius Valerius Proculus, who held the office from 144 to 146; d'Escurac notes Petronius Honoratus was also the immediate successor of Proculus in Egypt.[3]

References

  1. ^ CIL VI, 1625b = ILS 1340. His career is also documented in an inscription found at Ostia Antica, CIL XIV, 184
  2. ^ d'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1976), p. 343
  3. ^ a b d'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, p. 344
  4. ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), pp. 290f

Further reading

  • Hans-Georg Pflaum, Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire romain I-III (Paris, 1961), No. 117
Political offices
Preceded by Prefectus of Aegyptus
147-148
Succeeded by