Praefectus annonae

<h2 id="list-of-known-praefecti-annonae-urbis-romae">List of known <i>praefecti annonae urbis Romae</i></h2>
<p>The entries from AD 14 to 337 are based on d'Esurac, <i>La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin</i>.
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Gaius_Turranius/wKanGhJY">Gaius Turranius</a> (AD 14–48)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Pompeius_Paulinus_(prefect_of_Egypt)/QcKA1Lvt">Pompeius Paulinus</a> (c. 49–54)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Faenius_Rufus/ezvrBugv">Faenius Rufus</a> (55–62)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gaius_Poppaeus_Sabinianus/UjdctUDY">Gaius Poppaeus Sabinianus</a> (c. 62–65)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Arrius_Varus/R36GI9Do">Arrius Varus</a> (70)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gaius_Valerius_Paulinus_(eques)/2x7dBwDx">Gaius Valerius Paulinus</a> (c. 71–73)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Julius_Ursus/GuRpLNsz">Lucius Julius Ursus</a> (c. 74–76)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gaius_Tettius_Cassianus_Priscus/0VAwcdUm">Gaius Tettius Cassianus Priscus</a> (?76–79/80)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Laberius_Maximus/b7s5sVPy">Lucius Laberius Maximus</a> (c. 80–82)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Marcus_Mettius_Rufus/m8azYT4K">Marcus Mettius Rufus</a> (before 88)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Claudius_Athenodorus/yIzFjdV9">Claudius Athenodorus</a> (c. 95)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gaius_Minicius_Italus/lHos0vbQ">Gaius Minicius Italus</a> (between 95 and 100)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Servius_Sulpicius_Similis/XfyGkoum">Servius Sulpicius Similis</a> (between 103 and 107)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Marcus_Rutilius_Lupus/ymznrcJl">Marcus Rutilius Lupus</a> (between 107 and 111)</li>
<li>Claudius Julianus (between 118 and 138)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Gaius_Junius_Flavianus/uF99Ht7M">Gaius Junius Flavianus</a> (c. 138)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Valerius_Proculus/PLWTl5hG">Lucius Valerius Proculus</a> (142–144)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Marcus_Petronius_Honoratus/9gmj9RP9">Marcus Petronius Honoratus</a> (between 144 and 147)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Tiberius_Claudius_Secundinus_Lucius_Statius_Macedo/xLL3nMEg">Tiberius Claudius Secundinus Lucius Statius Macedo</a> (after 147)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Volusius_Maecianus/g3pxAGjz">Lucius Volusius Maecianus</a> (150s)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Quintus_Baienus_Blassianus/ChBns3w2">Quintus Baienus Blassianus</a> (between 150 and 161)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Titus_Furius_Victorinus/5np1qV1l">Titus Furius Victorinus</a> (before 159)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Titus_Flavius_Titianus_(prefectus_164)/eh41BoJ6">Titus Flavius Titianus</a> (between 161 and 164)</li>
<li>Ulpius Saturninus (166?)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Titus_Flavius_Piso/XTcLdttw">Titus Flavius Piso</a> (c. 177)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Julius_Vehilius_Gratus_Julianus/NQe9105d">Lucius Julius Vehilius Gratus Julianus</a> (until 189)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Papirius_Dionysius/NToHNYv6">Papirius Dionysius</a> (189–190)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Claudius_Julianus/Q0nBz1vE">Claudius Julianus</a> (c. 201)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Quintus_Marcius_Dioga/N9fPrsJJ">Quintus Marcius Dioga</a> (between 211 and 217)</li>
<li>Claudius (c. 218)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Domitius_Ulpianus/NAJ3pvDu">Domitius Ulpianus</a> (31 March 222 - 1 December 222)</li>
<li>Gaius Attius Alcimus Felicianus (2nd quarter 3rd century)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Caecina_Largus_(praefectus_annonae)/bl4LndNa">Caecina Largus</a> (1 February 250)</li>
<li>Flavius Arabianus (between 270 and 275)</li>
<li>Hostilius Antipater (between 268 and 328)</li>
<li>Flavius Domitianus (end 3rd century–beginning 4th century)</li>
<li>Manilius Rusticianus (307 or 309–310)</li>
<li>Scribonius (between 286 and 312)</li>
<li>Aurelius Victorianus (313?)</li>
<li>Gaius Caelius Saturninus (after 312)</li>
<li>Profuturus (318–319)</li>
<li>Mastichianus (326)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Neratius_Cerealis/pfvzpX6a">Neratius Cerealis</a> (328)</li>
<li>Lucius Crepereius Madalianus (337–341)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Marcus_Maecilius_Memmius_Furius_Baburius_Caecilianus_Placidus/tbYjqPyn">Marcus Maecilius Memmius Furius Baburius Caecilianus Placidus</a> (before 340)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Aurelius_Avianius_Symmachus/wbTkgn5T">Lucius Aurelius Avianius Symmachus</a> (340–350)</li>
<li>Antiochus (350–400)</li>
<li>Publius Attius Clementinus (350–400)</li>
<li>Flavius Hesychius (361–363)</li>
<li>Maximus (365)</li>
<li>Julianus (366)</li>
<li>Aurelianus (367)</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Maximinus_(praetorian_prefect)/mT7VBYcW">Maximinus</a> (368–370)</li>
<li>Ursicinus (372)</li>
<li>Sempronius Faustus (375–378)</li>
<li>Proculus Gregorius (377)</li>
<li>Herculius (383–388)</li>
<li>Nicetius (385)</li>
<li>Ragonius Vincentius Celsus (before 389)</li>
<li>Numerius Projectus (393–394)</li>
<li>Caecilianus (396–397)</li>
<li>Petronius (400–500)</li>
<li>Acholius Abydius (400–600)</li>
<li>Vitalius (403)</li>
<li>Flavius Alexander Cresconius (425–450)</li>
<li>Achilles (450–550)</li>
<li>Sabinus (522)</li>
<li>Paschasius (533–537)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a></li></ul>

<h2 id="list-of-known-praefecti-annonae-urbis-alexandriae">List of known <i>praefecti annonae urbis Alexandriae</i></h2>
<ul><li>Claudius (349)</li>
<li>Flavius Soterichus (350/450)</li></ul>
<h2 id="list-of-known-praefecti-annonae-africae">List of known <i>praefecti annonae Africae</i></h2>
<ul><li>Amabilianus (315-316)</li>
<li>Isidorus (368/375)</li>
<li>Demetrianus (369-372)</li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2>
<ul><li>Titus Livius (<a href="/facts/Livy/Plc1YwYE">Livy</a>), <i><a href="/facts/Ab_Urbe_Condita_Libri/ekY5Anq7">History of Rome</a></i>.</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Lucius_Cassius_Dio/KJCU0Ubw">Lucius Cassius Dio</a>, <i>Roman History</i>.</li>
<li><i>Digesta</i>, or <i>Pandectae</i> (<a href="/facts/Digest_(Roman_law)/dsuqGXPR">The Digest</a>).</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Barthold_Georg_Niebuhr/RlpXBdjz">Barthold Georg Niebuhr</a>, <i>The History of Rome</i>, Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall, trans., John Smith, Cambridge (1828).</li>
<li><a href="/facts/A._H._M._Jones/0duzqvE1">A. H. M. Jones</a> & <a href="/facts/John_Robert_Martindale/MxSj6Xjk">J. R. Martindale</a>, eds., <i><a href="/facts/Prosopography_of_the_Later_Roman_Empire/NFqyeQwB">The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire</a></i> (abbreviated <i>PLRE</i>), Cambridge University Press (1971–1992).</li>
<li>Guido Bastianini, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20180880">"Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p"</a>, in <i><a href="/facts/Zeitschrift_f%C3%BCr_Papyrologie_und_Epigraphik/LuHPPIA4">Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik</a></i>, vol. 17 (1975).</li>
<li>Henriette Pavis d'Escurac, <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/befar_0257-4101_1976_mon_226_1"><i>La préfecture de l'annone, service administratif impérial d'Auguste à Constantin</i></a> (Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome, No. 226), École française de Rome, Rome (1976).</li>
<li>Peter Eich, <i>Zur Metamorphose des politischen Systems in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Die Entstehung einer „personalen Bürokratie“ im langen dritten Jahrhundert</i> [On the metamorphosis of the political system in the Roman imperial period. The emergence of a ‘personal bureaucracy’ in the long third century]. <a href="/facts/Klio_(journal)/hChqkhYH">Klio</a> Beihefte, New Series, vol. 9. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-05-004110-2, esp. pp. 189-210.</li>
<li>Andreina Magioncalda, <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/ccgg_1016-9008_2012_num_23_1_1771">"La carriera di l. Iulius Ursus e le alte prefetture equestri nel I sec. D.C."</a>, in <i>Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz</i>, No. 23, pp. 113–129 (2012).</li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>Livy, iv.12; Niebuhr, History of Rome, vol. ii, p. 418. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Cassius Dio, lii. 24; Digesta, 1 tit. 2 s. 2 §33; 14 tit. 1 s. 1 §18, tit. 5 s. 8; 48 tit. 2 s. 13. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>AE 2000, 267 <a href="/wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e_%C3%A9pigraphique" target="_blank">/wiki/L%27Ann%C3%A9e_%C3%A9pigraphique</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>Added from Magioncalda, "La carriera di l. Iulius Ursus e le alte prefetture equestri nel I sec. D.C." <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>Addressee of a rescript of Hadrian; otherwise unknown. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:6"><p>Dating Blassianus here instead of c. 133, following Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", p. 297, No. 1. <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:7"><p>Cassiodorus addressed a letter to him. He is probably not the same man as the vir spectabilis involved in a property dispute in 507/511. See Martindale, John R., ed. (1992). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume III, AD 527–641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 969. ISBN 0-521-20160-8. and Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 835. ISBN 0-521-20159-4. <a href="0-521-20160-80-521-20159-4" target="_blank">0-521-20160-80-521-20159-4</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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