List of Roman governors of Arabia Petraea explained
This is a list of known governors of the Arabia Petraea. Created in AD 106 following its annexation by the Roman emperor Trajan, it was governed by a senatorial legate until 262, when Gallienus transferred the governorship to equestrian Praesides. It returned to Senatorial appointees with the sole rule of Constantine I after 324, which continued until the province was lost in the 630s.
Legati Augusti pro praetor Arabiae (106 - 262)
- Gaius Claudius Severus (107 - 116)[1]
- Quintus Coredius Gallus Gargilius Antiquus (c. 118)
- Tiberius Julius Julianus Alexander (125)
- Lucius Aninius Sextius Florentinus (127)
- Titus Haterius Nepos (130)
- Lucius Aemilius Carus (141 - 142)
- Sextus Cocceius Severianus[2] (145)
- Lucius Attidius Cornelianus (150 - 151)
- Gaius Allius Fuscianus (c. 160)
- Publius Julius Geminius Marcianus (162 - 163)
- Quintus Antistius Adventus (166 - 167)
- Lucius Claudius Modestus (between 167 and 169)
- [...] Severus (c. 177 - c. 180)
- Quintus Flavius Julius Fronto[3] (c. 181)
- Marcus Bassaeus Astur (between c. 188 and c. 195)
- Publius Aelius Severianus Maximus (193 - 194)
- Quintus Scribonius Tenax (between 194 and 196)
- Marcus Caecilius Fuscianus Crepereianus Floranus (before 198)
- Lucius Marius Perpetuus (200 - c. 203)[4]
- Quintus Aiacius Modestus Crescentianus (either between c. 198 and 200, or between 202 and 204)[5]
- Aurelius Aurelianus[6] (209 - 210)
- Quintus Scribonius Tenax[5]
- Lucius Alfenus Avitianus (c. 212/215)
- Sextus Furnius Julianus (213 - 214)
- Quintus Flavius Balbus (between 213 and 220)
- Pica Caerianus (218)
- Gaius Furius Sabinus Aquila Timesitheus (vice praeses, acting in place of the legate, in 218 and again 222)
- Flavius Julianus (c. 219)
- Publius Plotius Romanus (between 211 and 222)[7]
- Trebonius Fortunatus (c. 222)[8]
- Caecilius Maximus (between 223 and 226)[9]
- Claudius Sollemnius Pacatianus (between 223 and 230)
- Lucius Egnatius Victor Marinianus (? between 225 and 230)
- Pomponius Julianus (236)
- Decimus Simonius Proculus Julianus (c. 237/238)
- Marcus Domitius Valerianus (c. 238/239)
- Claudius Capitolinus (245 - 246)
- Caelius Felix (246 - 247)[10]
- Marcus Aelius Aurelius Theo (between 253 and 259)
- Virius Lupus (before 259)
- [...]ius Gallonianus (259 - 260)
- Coc[...] Rufinus (? 261 - 262)
- Julianus (held post when two Augustii were ruling jointly)[11]
- Erucius Clarus (uncertain date)
- Publius Pomponius Secundinus (uncertain date)
- Aelius (uncertain date)
Equestrian Praesides Arabiae (262 - 324)
- Junius Olympus (262 - 263)
- Statilius Ammianus (263 - 264)
- Julius Heraclitus (between 265 and 273)
- Aurelius Antiochus (between 265 and 273)
- Flavius Aelianus (274 - 275)
- Aurelius Petrus (278 - 279)
- Aemillius Aemillianus (282 - 283)
- Domitius Antonius (between 284 and 293)
- Marcus Aurelius Aelianus (between 293 and 305)
- Aurelius Asclepiades (between 293 and 305)
- Aurelius Felicianus (between 293 and 305)
- Aurelius Gorgonius (between 293 and 305)
- Aelius Flavianus (date uncertain)
Senatorial Praesides Arabiae (324 - 630)
- Flavius Antonius Hierocles (c. 343 - 344)[12]
- Theodorus (346)
- Flavius Archelaus (c. 349 - 350)
- Andronicus (c. 356 - 357)
- Maximus (357 - 358)
- Belaeus (362 - 363)
- Ulpianus (364)
- Malchus (between 365 and 399)
- Flavius Bonus (392)
- Sabinianus (?– fourth or fifth century)
- Flavius Philocalus (?– fifth century)
- Flavius Arcadius Alexander (487)
- Hesychius (490)
- Flavius Elias (? – late fifth or early sixth century)
Notes and References
- The section from 107 to 305 is based on Glen Warren Bowersock, Roman Arabia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 160-163
- [Werner Eck]
- Bauzou Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie et les inscriptions milliaires", Syria 68 (1991), pp. 446-448
- Date taken from Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (180-235 n. Chr), (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), p. 267
- Date taken from Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 268
- Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 448-450
- Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare, p. 179
- Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 450-452
- Instead of "Caecilius Felix", as argued in Sandrine Agusta-Boularot, Adnan Mujjali et Jacques Seigne, "Un 'nouveau' gouverneur d'Arabie sur un milliaire inédit de la voie Gerasa/Adraa", Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Antiquité, 110 (1998), pp. 243-260
- Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 452-456
- Thomas, "Les fastes de la province d'Arabie", pp. 456f
- The section from 343 through the 6th century is based on Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, and John Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I (A.D. 260-395), (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), pp. 1106-1107; and Jones, Martindale, and Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. II (A.D. 395-527), (Cambridge: University Press, 1971), p. 1285
