SULL’IDENTITÀ DEL PREFETTO D’EGITTO CONDANNATO DA SETTIMIO SEVERO (DIG. XLVIII 10, 1, 4)

Abstract

SVMMARIVM - Marcianus iuris peritus, in una ex sui operis reliquiis in Iustiniani Digesta
collectis, praefectum quendam Aegypti crimine falsi a divo Severo damnatum esse memoravit
(Dig. XLVIII 10, 1, 4); eum M. Ulpium Primianum fuisse periti dubie putant. Hic tamen L.
Mantennium Sabinum, decessorem Primiani, eundem esse praefectum a Marciano memoratum
conicitur.

ABSTRACT - A fragment of Marcianus’s Institutiones, which can be read in the Digest of
Justinian (Dig. LXVIII 10, 1, 4), deals with a sentence imposed by Septimius Severus on an
anonymous prefect of Egypt for committing a crime of forgery. The prefect has been dubiously
identified in scholarly history with M. Ulpius Primianus (195-196 CE). A reappraisal of the
sources could lead to consider also the name of his predecessor, L. Mantennius Sabinus (192-
194 CE).