Gens:

ARTORIUS

Created:

26th January 2014

Update:

10th February 2021

Status Republic:

Patrician:

Pleb. Nobilis:

Senatorial:

Eques Romanus:

Local magistrate:

Republican Family / Cognomen

Patrician

n/a

Pleb. Nobilis

n/a

Senatorial

n/a

Equestrian

n/a

Local magistrat.

no cognomen

Uncertain

n/a

Imperial Family / Cognomen

Imperators

n/a

Consular

Maximus (if suffect consulate by 284)

Senatorial

Geminus, Germanianus ?

Equestrian

Castus, Priscillus

Equestrian (mil)

n/a

Local magistrat.

Bassus

Uncertain

Augendus

Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors

n/a

Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars)

incl. 0 emperors

Notes:

The two daughters of Geminus may be one person with 2 husbands., but I have followed FOS here. See stemma in PIR-S p.153

The alternative solution is that M. Septicius Sura and Q. Marcius Barea Sura were brothers and that Septicius was adopted by testament by a M. Septicius.

This solution is preferred by Sallomies, Champlin, and Corbier.

Wikipedia has a very detailed article on L. Artorius Castus.

Literature

Birley: Roman Government of Britain (2005) p.355 (L. Artorius Castus, commanded vexillatio of two British legions in was vs Armenia, not Armorica in Gallia)

Cavenaile: L'Armee d'Egypte (1970) p.227 (§299 M. Artorius M.f. Priscillus Vicasius Sabidianus, praefect of Berenice)

Chastagnol: Fastes de la Préfecture de Rome (1962) p.30-31 (§8 L. Artorius Pius Maximus, PUR 298-299)

Christol: Carrieres Senatoriales (1986) p.143 (§5 L. Artorius Pius Maximus, Christol argues he was cos suff about 20 years before being PUR, thus c.278, and

therefore before his governorship of Syria-Phoenice, thus making this a consular province, though it was also praetorian)

Corbier: Aerarium (1974) p.348-351 (§1 M. Artorius Geminus, praef aerar mil 10 AD (the office was created in 6 AD), she prefers he is the grandson of the medicus,

followed in stemma below)

Crook: Consilium Principis (1955) p.152 (§35 M. Artorius Asclepiades, amicus and medicus of Augustus)

Dobson: Primipilares (1955) p.47 (§61 L. Artorius Castus, follows Pflaum in dating his career to Commodus)

Dobson: Primipilares (1978) p.267-268 (§151 L. Artorius Castus)

Dondin-Payre, Monique: "Choix et contraintes dans l'expression de la parenté dans le monde romain", in Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 5, 1994.

p.158-159 (proposes stemma showing M. Septicius Sura as the son of Q. Marcius Barea Soranus, cos 34, adopted by a M. Septicius)

Fitz: Pannonien (1993-1995) p.920-921 (§608 L. Artorius Castus, dates his activities in Brit to the 180s)

Hächler: Kontinuität und Wandel (2019) p.656 (§XVII L. Artorius Pius Maximus, PUR 298-299)

Kirbihler, Francois: "Des grecs et des italiens à Éphèse. Histoire d’une intégration croisée (133 a.C.–48 p.C.)", Scripta Antiqua 88, Bordeaux 2016, p.

p.284 (§26 L. Artorius Pius Maximus, and Artorii)

Loriot, M. Xavier: "Un mythe historiographique : l'expédition de L. Artorius Castus contre les Armoricains", in Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires

de France, 1997, 2001. p.85-87 (refutes that Artorius campaign was against the Armoricii, as scholars from Mommsen onwards have assumed, but was against

the Armenii. And pushing the date to 215 or even later. Earlier dating was under Commodus)

Mouritsen: Pompeian Epigraphy (1988) p.83 (M. Artorius II vir cand 80/30 BC)

PIR2 Pars VII, Fasciculus 2 letter S (2006) p.153 stemma of Artorii, Marcii and Septicii, which I have followed)

Raepsaet-Charlier: PFOS (1987) p.121 (discussion of relationship of Artoria to Marcius Barea Sura anmd Septicius Sura), stemma XI

Ritterling: Fasti Deutschland (1932) p.133 (M. Artorius Priscillus Vicasius Sabidianus, tribune of cohort)

Salomies: Nomenclature (1992) p.48-49 (prefers that M. Septicius Sura, was the son of Q. Marcius Barea Soranus, cos 34, adopted by testament by a M. Septicius.

Settipani: Continuite (2000) p.285-287 (Settipani suggests that Q. Marcius Q.f.C.n.C.pron Barea Sura and M. Septicius Q.f.C.n.C.pron. Sura were brothers

and Septicius was adopted by a Septicius. )

Stout: Governors of Moesia (1911) p.46-47 ([A]rtorius, governor 120)

Szramkiewicz: Gouverneurs Vol.2 (1972) p.379 (M. Artorius Geminus)

Thomas: Roman Epistrategos (1982) p.185, 194 (§13 M. Artorius Priscillus Vicasius Sabidianus, epistrategus Thebaidos ante 117)

Tortotiello: Fasti Consolari di Claudio (2004) p.527 (stemma of Artorius Geminus)

Wiseman: New Men (1971) p.215 (§45 M. Artorius Geminus, praef aerar milit, Wiseman considers him possibly the son of the medicus)

Changes

2014.02.08 first version

2021.02.10 New header, reference list plus many updates

CIL-IV-8+16

M. Atorius

II vir cand at Pompeii,

c.80/30 BC

REPUBLIC

IMPERIAL

A1183 RE4

M. Artorius (Asclepiades?)

from Smyrna, inscription with cognomen Asclepiades is a forgery)

medicus to AUGUSTUS

mention 42

† post 31 in shipwreck

A1185

Artorius Geminus

A1186 RE5 Laet53

FOS105

← PIR addenda →

FOS106

M. Artorius Geminus

(Artoria)

leg Caesar Aug,

see AE1973-33

? = FOS105

praef aerar mil 10AD

? = FOS106

~ C. (Septicius) C.f.

~ C. (Marcius) C.f.

M218

RE37

S410

RE3a

ILS6797 AE1952-106

Q. Marcius C.f.C.n Barea Soranus

Q. Septicius C.f.C.n.

C. Artorius Bassus

cos suff 34

pr, leg 37

from Carthago in Africa,

~ Caepia Crispina,, FOS166

local pont, aedil, II vir at Carthago,

curator Lucustae, patron of pagus,

dedicated altar 48/49 at Thugga

A1191 RE11 FOS107

M219

RE38

S412

RE4a

Artoria Flaccilla

Q. Marcius Q.f.C.n.C.pn. Barea Sura

M. Septicius Q.f.C.n.C.pn. Sura

exiled in 65 with husband

(not the cos 52)

~ D. Iunius Novius Priscus

pronepos of Artorius Geminus

cos ord 78

↓

A1180 RE3 Lamb235 Stech1608

A1188 RE9 Pf88 PME-A168

[A?]rtorius

M. Artorius M.f. Priscillus Vicasius Sabidianus

leg Aug pr pr Moesia Inf 120

trib Pal., inscription Puteoli,

AE1977-745 + AE1985-759 show

tr coh, tr leg VII Cla in Moesia Sup, praef alae,

name is C. Ummidius Quadratus

praef montis Berenicidia in Aegyptus,

S[allustius Se]rtorius, cos 118

epistrategus (LX) Thebaidos 114-117

flamen divi Augusti, patron (Puteoli),

A1184 RE4a RE7 Dobson151 LP17-70 Pf196

L. Artorius Castus

from Epetium in Dalmatia,

primus pilus V Mac in Dacia,

praepositus classis Misenum,

praef (= praef castrorum) legio VI Vic in Brit

dux vexillation of two (or 3?) legions from Britannia

in war vs Armenia (215 or under Severus Alexander)

procur provincia Liburnia iure gladii (C ) (in Dalmatia),

Pflaum puts his career under Commodus

cf. AE1981-694

A1187 RE7a Bar1811 Lamb862 PLRE Max43

L. Artorius Pius Maximus

honored at Ephesus, vir clar,

leg pro pr Syria Phoenice post 286

cos suff ann inc (before or after Syria)

procos Asia 287/298

PUR 298-299

UNCERTAIN DATE

PIR1 A950a RE6 PLRE Germ2

CIL-VI-1928

NSc 1965, 45

C. Art(orius?) Germanianus

C. Artorius Iulius Augendus

Artorius Q. f. Histrianus,

or Articuleius

viator quaestorius ab aerario Saturni,

IIII vir at Verona in 1st century,

clar vir,

a freedman, thus presumably not

praef fabrum, q aerarii at Verona

mention on water-pipe

a quaestor in charge of the aerarium Saturn.

is likely = [Q. Se?]rtorius Q. f. Pob. [H]istrianus.

3rd or 4th century

2nd century

(NSc = Notizie degli Scavi di antichità)