Lucius Mussius Aemilianus
Lucius Mussius Aemilianus | |||||||||
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Usurper of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
Reign | 260 or 260-261 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Gallienus | ||||||||
Successor | Gallienus | ||||||||
Died | 261 or 262 | ||||||||
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Father | Italian |
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
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.
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
See also
- Gallienus usurpers – Roman usurpers during the reign of emperor Gallienus
References
- ^ CIL VI, 1624 = ILS 1433
- ^ Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), pp. 314f
- ^ Eusebius, Ecclesiae Historia, 7.11. English translation in G. A. Williamson, Eusebius: The History of the Church (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965), pp. 294-298
- ^ 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
- ISBN 978-0-7486-2050-0.
Further reading
- "Usurpers in Egypt: Mussius Aemilianus and Memor", in Körner, Christian, "Usurpers under Gallienus", De Imperatoribus Romanis website
- John R. Martindale, "Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Addenda et Corrigenda to Volume I", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 23 (1974), pp. 246-252