Religio IVXTA Æsculapium

Abstract

Le rapprochement de deux inscriptions de Lambèse permet de mieux appréhender le rôle majeur joué par le culte d'Esculape dans la ville qui était le quartier général de la Legio III Augusta. L 'un de ces textes conduit à apporter quelques précisions sur la personnalité et la carrière de Domitius Zenofilus.

Roman Inscriptions 2001–2005

“…616 and 617). An addition to the catalogue of epigraphically attested amici Caesaris is one Flavius Balbus Diogenianus, who is described as proconsul of Asia and an amicus of the two reigning emperors (most probably under the Maximini in a.d. [236][237][238] or Decius and colleagues in a.d. [250][251]. Also honoured are Appius Rufinus Metillianus, legatus pro praetore, and his father Attius Rufinus, the proconsul, who may be identified with a legate of Syria with the same cognomen in a.d. 241.…”

“…236 Contemporary with Decrianus in Bithynia should be the activities of the legate of Numidia, C. Macrinius Decianus (PIR 2 M 23), according to the arguments of M. Christol. 237 He discusses the text of CIL VIII.2615, cf. 1739 = ILS 1194 from Lambaesis, which gives a relatively developed account of four campaigns fought by C. Macrinius Decianus and the legio III Augusta against four tribal opponents across Mauretania and Numidia.…”