Marcus Magius Maximus

Marcus Magius Maximus was an eques active during the reign of the emperor Augustus. Maximus was prefect of Roman Egypt from AD 12 to 14.[1] It was thought Maximus had been appointed prefect of Egypt twice -- the only person to hold this office twice -- based almost solely on a problematic passage in Philo's In Flaccum, but John Rea has shown this passage can be read more plausibly in a different way, removing all support for this belief.[2]

While prefect of Egypt, Maximus had an obelisk that Ptolemy II Philadelphus had erected as a memorial to his wife and sister Arsinoe II in Alexandria moved to the market-place because it was in the way of the harbor.[3]

An inscription from Aeclanum near Beneventum attests that Magius Maximus was also procurator of Hispania Tarraconensis.[4]

Further reading
  • Rudolf Hanslik, "Marcus Magius Maximus II 3", Der Kleine Pauly, Band 3 (Stuttgart 1969), col. 882.
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References
  1. Guido Bastianini, "Lista dei prefetti d'Egitto dal 30a al 299p", Zeitschrift fĆ¼r Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 17 (1975), p. 269
  2. Rea, "Five Papyrological Notes on Imperial Prosopography", Chronique d'Egypte, 43 (1968), pp. 365-367 doi:10.1484/J.CDE.2.308138
  3. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, xxxvi.68f
  4. CIL IX, 1125 = ILS 1335
Political offices
Preceded by
Lucius Antonius Pedo		 Prefect of Egypt
12ā€“14		 Succeeded by
Lucius Seius Strabo
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