Person
Name	A. Pompeius Vopiscus
	Reading of first name (A. or L.) is uncertain. Legatus Augusti pro praetore in Thrace under Antoninus Pius in AD 157/158. Vopiscus' name appears on coins e.g. of Bizye, Hadrianopolis, Philippopolis, Plotinopolis, and Pautalia. There and in Bizye always with title of Hegemon. Lit.: Y. Youroukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye (1981) pp. 10, 52; B. E. Thomasson, Laterculi Praesidum I (1984) p. 165 no. 27; ibid. I Addenda (2011) 22:027; PIR² P 660.
Types	Hegemon , Legatus Augusti pro praetore
Nomisma	https://nomisma.org/id/a_pompeius_vopiscus_pirp660
	https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/magistrate/1399
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12271120
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/5183
created	10.05.2024
changed	22.12.2024
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Person

Name

A. Pompeius Vopiscus

Reading of first name (A. or L.) is uncertain. Legatus Augusti pro praetore in Thrace under Antoninus Pius in AD 157/158.

Vopiscus' name appears on coins e.g. of Bizye, Hadrianopolis, Philippopolis, Plotinopolis, and Pautalia. There and in Bizye always with title of Hegemon.

Lit.: Y. Youroukova, Die Münzprägung von Bizye (1981) pp. 10, 52; B. E. Thomasson, Laterculi Praesidum I (1984) p. 165 no. 27; ibid. I Addenda (2011) 22:027; PIR² P 660.

Types

Hegemon

, Legatus Augusti pro praetore

Nomisma

https://nomisma.org/id/a_pompeius_vopiscus_pirp660