Marcus Aefulanus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Claudius and Nero. He was suffect consul in the second half of 54.[1] He is known to have held one other office, proconsular governor of the public province of Asia around 66/67.[2] Aefulanus is only known from inscriptions.

Little is known about Tutor, who is the only member of the gens Aefulana to accede to the consulship, and only a little more about his gens. A Mons Aefulanus (modern Monte Sante Angelo in Arcese) is known, as well as a town of the same name on its slopes;[3] the similar name suggests the suffect consul's family had its origins there. Less than a dozen Aefulani in total are attested, including a Marcus Aefulanus M.l. Primus, who is likely our Aefulanus' freedman or former slave.[4] These include: one Titus Aefulanus, a local magistrate in Forum Cornelii (modern Imola);[5] several wax tablets recovered from Pompeii mention a Publius Aefulanus Crysantus;[6] inscriptions recovered from Augusta Emerita (near Merida, Spain) attest to four people (two freedmen) of that gens present there;[7] and two inscriptions attest to a family of that name.[8] Two letters of Pliny the Younger mention an Aefulanus Marcellinus.[9] Except for the freedman Primus, there is no grounds for any of them being related to the consul.

References

  1. ^ Alison E. Cooley, The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge: University Press, 2012), p. 459
  2. ^ Ronald Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), pp. 197
  3. ^ Christian Hülsen, "Aefulae", Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I,1 (1893), Cols. 475–476
  4. ^ CIL VI, 34221
  5. ^ CIL XI, 670
  6. ^ CIL IV, 3340
  7. ^ AE 1967, 188, HEp 15, 2006, 46
  8. ^ CIL VI, 10607, CIL VI, 34220
  9. ^ Pliny, Epistulae v.16; vii.23
Political offices Preceded byManius Acilius Aviola,and Marcus Asinius Marcellusas ordinary consuls Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 54with ignotus Succeeded byNero, and Lucius Antistius Vetusas ordinary consuls
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