Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I NOMENCLATURE AND CHRONOLOGY
- PART II THE FAMILY CIRCLE
- PART III THE EMPEROR'S SERVICE
- 12 Vicarii
- 13 Liberti servus and liberti libertus
- 14 ‘Vicariani’
- 15 The occupational hierarchy: some points of method
- 16 Sub-clerical grades
- 17 Adiutores: junior clerical grades
- 18 Intermediate clerical grades
- 19 Senior clerical grades
- 20 Senior administrative grades: a rationibus, ab epistulis, etc.
- 21 Freedman procurators
- 22 Imperial freedmen and equestrian status: the father of Claudius Etruscus
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIXES
- Bibliography
- Index
19 - Senior clerical grades
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I NOMENCLATURE AND CHRONOLOGY
- PART II THE FAMILY CIRCLE
- PART III THE EMPEROR'S SERVICE
- 12 Vicarii
- 13 Liberti servus and liberti libertus
- 14 ‘Vicariani’
- 15 The occupational hierarchy: some points of method
- 16 Sub-clerical grades
- 17 Adiutores: junior clerical grades
- 18 Intermediate clerical grades
- 19 Senior clerical grades
- 20 Senior administrative grades: a rationibus, ab epistulis, etc.
- 21 Freedman procurators
- 22 Imperial freedmen and equestrian status: the father of Claudius Etruscus
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIXES
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
TABULARIUS A RATIONIBUS
In the career-type inscriptions of the Imperial freedmen, senior clerical status is very rarely mentioned in the sequence of posts held, although it can be assumed that the vast majority of all freedmen who reached the senior rank of procurator in the administrative service must have held at least one post in the clerical grades, probably of senior clerical status, before rising to procuratorial status. But here mention should be made of one type of exception which is significant – the careers of those who held the post of tabularius a rationibus. The examples are:
(1) T. Flavius Aug. lib. Delphicus, tabularius a ratio[nibus, p]roc.ration(is)thesaurorum, hereditatium, fisci Alexandrini (AE 1888, 130 = d 1518).
(2) Martialis A[ug. lib …], tabulariu[s a rationibus?], proc. fiscorum [transmarinorum e]t fisci castr[ensis, pr]oc. h[ereditatium et fisc]i libe[rtatis et peculiorum] (VI 8515, with the restorations of Sanders, Mem. Amer. Acad. Rome 10 (1932), 81).
(3) T. Aelius Augg. lib. Saturnin(us), pr[oc. pro vine] Belgicae […], proc. fisci libertatis et peculior(um), tabul(arius) a rationibus, tabul(arius) Ostis ad annona(m) (VI 8450 = d 1521).
The prestige of a post held in the central department of the a rationibus was always high. This is confirmed by the fact that only in the a rationibus is the clerical grade of tabularius recorded as giving access to the procuratorial grade. But it is the chronological distribution of the tabularii a rationibus that is significant here.
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- Familia CaesarisA Social Study of the Emperor's Freedmen and Slaves, pp. 244 - 258Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972