Person
Name	Tullius Menophilus
	Legatus Augusti pro praetore Moesiae inferioris. Known through epigraphic (in Nicopolis) and numismatic sources. He dedicated a statue to the emperor Gordianus III, and his name appears on coins in Marcianopolis with the portrait of Gordianus III on the obverse, but not with those of Tranquillina. Therefor his term in office seems to have terminated before the Imperial marriage in AD 241. Additionally at some point before AD 238 he is recorded as consul suffectus. Lit.: B. E. Thomasson, Laterculi Praesidum I (1984) p. 144 no. 131 (c. AD 239-240); PIR² T 387; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 682 s. v. Menophilos (c. AD 238-244).
Types	Legatus Augusti pro praetore
Nomisma	https://nomisma.org/id/tullius_menophilos_pirt387
Wikidata	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1256470
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/8535
created	10.05.2024
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Person

Name

Tullius Menophilus

Legatus Augusti pro praetore Moesiae inferioris.

Known through epigraphic (in Nicopolis) and numismatic sources. He dedicated a statue to the emperor Gordianus III, and his name appears on coins in Marcianopolis with the portrait of Gordianus III on the obverse, but not with those of Tranquillina. Therefor his term in office seems to have terminated before the Imperial marriage in AD 241. Additionally at some point before AD 238 he is recorded as consul suffectus.

Lit.: B. E. Thomasson, Laterculi Praesidum I (1984) p. 144 no. 131 (c. AD 239-240); PIR² T 387; W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II (2009) p. 682 s. v. Menophilos (c. AD 238-244).

Types

Legatus Augusti pro praetore

Nomisma

https://nomisma.org/id/tullius_menophilos_pirt387