Marcus Rutilius Lupus
Marcus Rutilius Lupus was a
It is thought that Lupus came from Beneventum (modern Benevento), home of a number of Rutilii Lupi. One member of this family is named in the Tabula alimentaria Ligurum Baebianorum as an absentee landlord owning property in at least two pagi, where he was represented by a vilicus.[2] Mommsen first suggested that the landowner was the same person as the eques, an identification that Arthur Stein first disagreed with, but came to accept.[3]
Career
Lupus is known to have been the
His next appointment was Prefect of Egypt, which he is attested as holding from 113 to 117. For the fortune of the Lord Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajanus, the best, Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, under Marcus Rutilius Lupus, praefect of Egypt. To Sarapis and Isis, the most great gods, the inhabitants of Cysis, having decreed the building of the pylon, did it in token of their piety. In the year 19 of the Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajanus, the best, Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, the first of Pachon.[7]
Role in the brick industry
According to research by Bloch, Stienby and Setälä, Marcus Rutilius Lupus was one of the most important persons in the history of the Roman
He also acquired other clay-lands, respectively figlinae Naevianae and figlinae Narnienses.[9]
Sources
- P.A. Brunt, "The Administrators of Roman Egypt", Journal of Roman Studies, 65 (1975), pp. 124–147.
Notes
- ^ cf. Salo Wittmayer Baron, A social and religious history of the Jews, pp. 94–95
- ^ CIL IX, 1455 = ILS 6509
- ^ a b Henriette Pavis d'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, 226) (Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1976), p. 336
- Journal of Roman Studies, 70 (1980), p. 68 n. 41) dates his tenure more broadly, from 103 to 111.
- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 282
- ^ Samuel Sharpe, History of Egypt, Moxon 1859, vol. 2, p. 157
- ^ from Sir John Gardener Wilkinson book on Egypt, p. 370
- ^ John Bodel, "Speaking signa and the Brickstamps of M. Rutilius Lupus", Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, 32 (2005), p. 61
- ^ Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan Press, 1983, p. 23
- ^ d'Escurac, La préfecture de l'annone, p. 336 n. 8
External links
- "The revolt against Trajan", from livius.org