COMTES ET DUCS EN ÉGYPTE AUTOUR DE L'AN 400 ET LA DATE DE LA NOTITIA OIGNITATUM ORIENTIS (original) (raw)

C o n s t a n t i n Z u c k e r m a n Comités and duces in Egypt around the year 400 and the date o f the Notitia Dignitatum Orientis The study consists o f four prosopographical notes which deal with the career o f high commanders and functionaries in Egypt. 1. FI. Eleutherius is shown to have served first as dux of Thebaid and then as comes o f Egypt (399-401). II. Synesius' friend the comes based in Alexandria is identified as comes Aegypti FI. Herculianus (appointed in the summer o f 395). HI. Aedesius, the person guilty o f not prosecuting Hypatia's murderers (415), is tentatively identified as the homonymous officer who appears as dux Thebaidis in a letter o f Shenute and who could be later promoted comes Aegypti. IV. The mysterious Anatolius burned in Alexandria according to the Chronicle ofTheophanes (398/9), is shown to have occupied the position o f praefectus Augustalis, the last to bear the honorary rank of clarissimus. The latter note develops into a dissertation on the date o f the promotion o f comités Orientis, praefecti Augustales, vicarii, comités and duces to the rank o f spectnbiles and on the date o f the Notitia Dignitatum Orientis, set inA.D. 401. [Author] Trois des quatre notices qui composent cette étude apportent des précisions au tableau des hauts commandants militaires en Egypte et, accessoirement, en Cyrénaïque à la fin du IVe et au début du Ve siècle. Elles abordent un sujet commun à partir de sources diverses : des papyrus (notice I), mais aussi des lettres de Synésios (notice II) et un fragment de Damascius (notice III). La quatrième notice, partant des données de carrière d'un haut fonctionnaire civil, préfet augustal du diocèse d'Égypte, aborde un problème plus vaste : la promotion des comtes d'Orient, des augustals et des vicaires ainsi que des comtes militaires et des ducs au rang des spectabiles et la date de la Notitia Dignitatum Orientis.

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