Lucius Mussius Aemilianus

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Lucius Mussius Aemilianus
Usurper of the Roman Empire
Reign260 or 260-261
PredecessorGallienus
SuccessorGallienus
Died261 or 262
Names
Lucius Mussius Aemilianus signo Aegippius
Regnal name
Imperator Caesar Lucius Mussius Aemilianus Augustus
FatherItalian

Lucius Mussius Aemilianus signo Aegippius (died 261 or 262) who held a number of military and civilian positions during the middle of the third century. He is best known as a Roman usurper during the reign of Gallienus.

Sources

The sources for this emperor include

Tyranni Triginta" 22.1-8, as well as several papyri
and one inscription.

Career

Mussius Aemilianus probably was of Italian stock. His career in imperial service is documented up to 18 May 247 from an inscription recovered at Fiumicino.[1] Appointments he held up to that date include praefectus vehiculorum trium provinciarum Galliarum, procurator Alexandreae Pelusi and a third location (now lost), procurator portus utriusque Ostiae.

Aurelius Appius Sabinus. Eusebius preserves a letter of Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria where the bishop documents his trial before Mussius Aemilianus for professing Christianity, for which he was exiled to Cephro in the Libyan Desert.[3] A surviving papyrus, dated to 259/260, has been identified as an independent witness to this trial.[4]

Usurpation

He supported the rebellion of the Macriani against Gallienus (260-261). When the Macriani were defeated Mussius Aemilianus proclaimed himself emperor.[5]

Gallienus sent his general

Memor
, a possible supporter, was executed.

See also

References

  1. ^ CIL VI, 1624 = ILS 1433
  2. ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), pp. 314f
  3. ^ Eusebius, Ecclesiae Historia, 7.11. English translation in G. A. Williamson, Eusebius: The History of the Church (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965), pp. 294-298
  4. ^ Lincoln H. Blumell, "The Date of P.Oxy. XLIII 3119, the Deputy-Prefect Lucius Missius Aemilianus, and the Persecution of Christians by Valerian and Gallienus", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 186 (2013), pp. 111–113
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