List of urban prefects of Rome explained
This is a list of urban prefects of Rome, one of the oldest offices of the Roman state, attested from the time of the kings through the Republic and the Empire up until 599. The office also existed during the era of the Crescentii family in Rome, late 10th century, as well as in the early 12th century, when the Pope appointed its holders. It was especially influential during the imperial period and late Antiquity, when the urban prefect exercised the government of the city of Rome and its surrounding territory.
6th to 1st century BC
1st century
2nd century
3rd century
4th century
5th century
Of uncertain date in the 5th century
- Claudius Lachanius (late 4th or early 5th century)
- Junius Pomponius Ammonius (4th or 5th century)
- Junius Valerius Bellicus (sometime between 408 and 423)
- Anicius Acilius Glabrio Faustus (three terms between 408 and 437)
- Euthymius (early or mid 5th century)
- Julius Agrius Tarrutenius Marcianus (early or mid 5th century)
- Flavius Peregrinus Saturninus (two terms in the early or mid 5th century)
- Paulinus (sometime between 425 and 455)[8]
- Flavius Olbius Auxentius Draucus (sometime between 425 and 450)
- Neuthius (sometime between 426 and 443)
- Rufius Caecina Felix Lampadius (sometime between 429 and 450)
- Appius Nicomachus Dexter (before 432)
- Petronius Perpenna Magnus Quadratinus (before 443)
- Rufius Praetextatus Postumianus (two terms before 448)
- Flavius Rufius Opilio (after 450)
- Valerius Faltonius Adelphius (two terms before 451)
- Rufius Viventius Gallus (mid 5th century)
- Junius Valentinus (sometime between 455 and 476)
- Probinus (sometime between 457 and 472)
- Plotius Eustathius (sometime between 457 and 472)
- Flavius Synesius Gennadius Paulus (before 467)
- Aggerius (before 483)
- Venantius Severinus Faustus (before 483)
- Glabrio Venantius Faustus (before 483)
- Rufius Synesius Hadirianus (before 483)
- Rufius Valerius Messala (before 483)
- Fabius Felix Passifilius Paulinus (before 483)
- Titus Haditanus Secundus (before 483)
- Memmius Aemilius Trygetius (before 483)
- Flavius Nar. Manlius Boethius (before 487; first time) (487; second time) (he served as consul in 487)
- Rufius Achilius Sividius (before 488; first term) (488; second term) (he served as consul in 488)
- Claudius Iulius Ecclesius Dynamius (circa 488)[9] (he served as consul in 488)
- Flavius Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius (before 494) (he served as consul in 494)
6th century
Of uncertain date in the 6th century
- Catulinus (late 5th or early 6th century)
- Bacauda (5th or 6th century)
- Julius Felix Campanianus (5th or 6th century)
- Justinianus (5th or 6th century)
- Valerius Florianus (sometime between 491 and 518)
Notes and References
- Urban prefects from Servianus through Celsus are taken from Edward Champlin, "Miscellanea Testamentaria", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 62 (1986), pp. 248f
- Urban prefects from L. Catilius Severus through C. Aufidius Victorinus are taken from Géza Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter der Antoninen (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag, 1977), pp. 287f
- Clarus died in office at the end of February/beginning of March 146 (Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand, p. 287)
- Urban prefects from P. Seius Fuscianus through M. Clodius Pupienus Maximus are taken from Paul Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: Verlag Gieben, 1989), pp. 307-312
- Leunissen notes the immediate successor to Fuscianus may be Marcus Servilius Silanus
- This Bassus has been doubtfully identified with Gaius Pomponius Bassus Terentianus
- [Tineius Sacerdos]
- n.4 = ; PLRE II, p. 847.
- [Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire]
- [Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire]
- 'Instructed by Theodahad to repair the bronze elephants on the Via Sacra; he had reported to the king on their bad condition' - see Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, III, 602, citing Cassiodorus, Variae epistolae, X, 30
- [Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire]
