Person "Aelius Helvius Dionysius, L."

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Id 1202
Person id-code Aelius Dionysius 001
Name Aelius Helvius Dionysius, L.
Gender male
Gentilicia AELIA ; HELVIA
Cognomina Dionysius
Tribus
Name comments
Free text (when person flourished)
Post quem (when person flourished) 267 AD
Ante quem (when person flourished) 321 AD
Notes on life data
Geography notes
Legal status ingenuus
Servile affiliation
Citizen status civis romanus
Local citizenship or ethinicity
Ordo affiliation ordo senatorius
Highest civic rank praefectus urbi
Honorary civic status
Honorary positions patronus collegii
Apparitor
Apparitorial Rank
Military status
Military Rank
Status notes and comments
CIL 06, 01673
 
patronus collegii fabrum Romae
 
(PLRE I, 260 Dionysius 12)
Helvius Dionysius belonged to the absolute top of the senatorial aristocracy. He fulfilled several offices in the imperial civilian bureaucracy culminating in his praefectura urbi in 301 CE. His connection to the collegium fabrum may due to this curatura operum publicum, although too many other patrons are attested for the collegia fabrum to be sure of this.