Person GND

Name

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Scipio Pius (-46 v. Chr.)

Consul in 52 BC. Govenor of the province of Asia in 49/48 BC.

His name appears in Latin on cistophors iussued in Pergamum/Mysia in 49/48 BC, always in comination with his title of imperator.

Proconsul in Syria, imperator as of 49 BC.

He committed suicide near Hippo Regius following the defeat at Thapsus in 46 BC.

See RRC nos. 459-461 bearing his name and title of imperator.

Lit.: W. E. Metcalf, The Later Republican Cistophori (2017) p. 6 (in Asia 49 BC); G. R. Stumpf, Numismatische Studien zur Chronologie der römischen Statthalter in Kleinasien (122 v. Chr.-163 n. Chr.) (1991) pp. 41-42 no. 68*; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 949.

Types

Imperator (Roman Republic) Info

GND

https://d-nb.info/gnd/1187003654 GND

VIAF

http://viaf.org/viaf/9252155919134339730003 nomisma

Nomisma

http://nomisma.org/id/q_metel_pivs_scipio_imp_rrc nomisma

Wikipedia [de]

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

Wikipedia [en]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Junius_Silanus_(consul_25_BC) nomisma

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG97146

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q316825

Permalink

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