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	Quintus Antonius Isauricus

	
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		2nd century military commander and suffect consul

	Quintus Antonius Isauricus

	Allegiance	Roman Empire
	Years of service	c.130-150
	Rank	Legate, Suffect Consul
	Commands held	Legio VI Victrix


Quintus Antonius Isauricus  was a Roman legatus legionis commanding Legio VI Victrix in Britain during the AD 130s under Hadrian. He is attested as later serving as suffect consul in May 140 under Antoninus Pius with Lucius Aurelius Flaccus as his colleague.[1]


Contents


	1 Life
	2 Inscription at York
	3 References
	4 External links





Life[edit]

Anthony Birley makes several comments about Isauricus' name and likely family.[2] Birley notes Quinti Antonii are rare in all parts of the Roman Empire, and only one other senator is known. The cognomen "Isauricus" is reminiscent of two consuls of the late Roman Republic, Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, consul 79 BC, and his son Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus, twice consul in 48 BC and 41 BC; their descendants can be traced into the second century AD. Birley speculates that Antonius Isauricus may be descended from these Republican consuls through the female side. 

Quintus Antonius Isauricus is named in an inscription from Eboracum (York).[3] The inscription was dedicated to his wife, Sosia Juncina, whom Birley speculates may have been related to another consul, Quintus Sosius Senecio, consul in 99 and 107.[2] A fragment of the Fasti Feriarum Latinarum and a military diploma provide evidence of his consulate.[1]


Inscription at York[edit]

  
The altar on display in the Yorkshire Museum



The Inscription which names Isauricus is an altar dedicated to Fortuna by his wife, Sosia Iuncina. It was found in 1839 at the site of the Old Railway Station, York and is associated with the Roman Baths nearby. Dedications to the Goddess of fortune are often associated with bath-houses.[4] The stone, measuring 71 x 40 x 38 cm and made of limestone, is inscribed with seven lines of texts. 

The stone inscription reads: DEAE / FORTUNAE / SOSIA / IUNCINA / Q(uinti) ANTONI / ISAURICI / LEG(ati) AUG(usti)


To the Goddess Fortuna, Sosia Juncina, wife of Quintus Antonius Isauricus, Imperial Legate, built this.[3]


References[edit]


	^ a b Werner Eck, "Die Fasti consulares der Regungszeit des Antoninus Pius, eine Bestandsaufnahme seit Géza Alföldys Konsulat und Senatorenstand" in Studia epigraphica in memoriam Géza Alföldy, hg. W. Eck, B. Feher, and P. Kovács (Bonn, 2013), p. 73

	^ a b Birley, The Fasti of Roman Britain, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981), p. 247

	^ a b Collingwood, R. (1965). "RIB 644: Altar to Fortuna". Retrieved 21 September 2016.

	^ 
"An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 1, Eburacum, Roman York". Royal Commission on Historic Monuments England. 1962. Retrieved 21 September 2016.





External links[edit]

	Altar to Fortuna in the Yorkshire Museum


	Political offices

	Preceded by
Antonius Pius III,
and Marcus Aurelius
as ordinary consuls
	 Suffect consul of the Roman Empire
140
with Lucius Aurelius Flaccus
	Succeeded by
Julius Crassipes,
and ignotus
as suffect consuls










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