| LC control no. | n 82104902 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Petronius, Publius, active 24 B.C.-21 B.C. |
| Variant(s) | Petrōnios, Poplios, active 24 B.C.-21 B.C. Petronius, Gaius, active 24 B.C.-21 B.C. Petronius, Prefect of Egypt, active 24 B.C.-21 B.C. Petronius, Publius, fl. 24-21 B.C. Poplios Petrōnios, active 24 B.C.-21 B.C. |
| Beginning date | -0023 |
| Ending date | -0020 |
| Associated country | Syria |
| Associated place | Egypt |
| Located | Rome (Italy) |
| Birth date | -0079 |
| Death date | -0019 |
| Profession or occupation | Governors Public officers Soldiers |
| Special note | Known primarily as Praefectus Aegypti in the 20's B.C.; often called merely Petronius |
| Found in | Poplios Petrōnios legei tois apo tōn epanō chronōn geōrgois, 22 B.C.? (a.e.) line 2 (Poplios Petrōn[ios]) Pauly-Wissowa, v. 19, col. 1197 (C. [i.e. Gaius] Petronius; so called by Dio Cassius but Pliny calls him P[ublius] Petronius; Praefectus Aegypti from 25 or 24 B.C. through at least 21 B.C.; led successful military campaign to the South of Egypt and Ethiopia) Bagnall, R.S., "Publius Petronius, Augustan prefect of Egypt," in: Papyrology, ed. by N. Lewis, Yale classical studies XXVIII, 1985: p. 85-93 (Publius Petronius [on basis of the new evidence of LC's Rosenwald-Maker papyrus]) Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 04, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Petronius, Publius; foreign military officer; born in 0080 B.C.E., place unknown; was a Roman official in Egypt and Governor (Legate) of Syria; third Augustan prefect of Egypt entrusted with the government of Egypt (24-21 BCE); pursued the Kushites along the Nile and arrived at the plain of Pselchis, north of the entrance to the WadiAllaqi, and defeated the Kushite army in battle; routed the Meroitic forces despite a greatly superior number to the Romans; continued unstoppable march into southern Nubia, following the caravan route that united Korosko to Abu Hamed; reached Napata, ancient capital located at the fourth cataract of the Nile, and probably devastated it; devoted to the drainage of irrigation canals to promote the improvement of agriculture, witnessed by an edict datable to 22 BCE, preserved in Greek on a papyrus in the Lessing J. Rosenwald collection of the Library of the United States Congress in Washington, DC; died in 0020 B.C.E.) |
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