Marcus Nummius Albinus (possibly Marcus Nummius Attidius Senecio Albinus) (c. AD 200 – c. AD 274) was a

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who was appointed

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twice, first as a ''suffectus'' sometime around AD 240, and secondly as an ''ordinarius'' in AD 263.

Biography

Nummius Albinus was possibly the son of Marcus Nummius Senecio Albinus who had been

in AD 227. He in turn was appointed

suffect consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

before AD 256, possibly around AD 240, during which time he may have been honoured by a statue erected at Adada in

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. In AD 256, he was appointed the ''

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'' of

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. He held this post a second time under the emperor

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, from 261 to 263, and was elevated to the office of ''consul prior'' alongside an otherwise unidentifiable individual named Dexter or perhaps Maximus Dexter in 263. Nummius Albinus may also have been the Albinus who was either ''

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'' or ''

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'' in

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. It is assumed that he was the Albinus who died of old age during the reign of

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.Mennen, pg. 113; Martindale & Jones, pg. 35 He was perhaps the brother of Marcus Nummius Tuscus who was ''consul ordinarius'' in AD 258, and he may have been the father of Marcus Nummius Ceionius Annius Albinus, who was probably ''

Praetor urbanus Praetor ( , ), also pretor, was the title granted by the government of Ancient Rome to a man acting in one of two official capacities: (i) the commander of an army, and (ii) as an elected ''magistratus'' (magistrate), assigned to discharge variou ...

'' during the reign of Diocletian.

Sources

* Martindale, J. R.; Jones, A. H. M, ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Vol. I AD 260–395, Cambridge University Press (1971) * Mennen, Inge, ''Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284'' (2011)

References

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