Person GND

Name

Publius Vitellius

Roman proconsul in Pontus and Bithynia in AD 17/18.

His name does appear in combination with his title of anthypatos on the coins of Nicemedia/Bithynia.

Comes of Germanicus. Uncle of the later emperor Vitellius. Praefectus Aerarii militaris in AD 31. He comitted suicide during the Seianus scandal.

Lit.: RPC I p. 337; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 736; PIR V 502; G. R. Stumpf, Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.) (1991) pp. 123-124.

Types

Anthypatos Info, Proconsul Info

Wikipedia [de]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Vitellius nomisma

Wikipedia [en]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Vitellius_the_Younger nomisma

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1227318

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