Gens: ABURNIUS
Created: 4th September 2007
Update:  21st December 2019
Status Republic: Patrician:     Pleb. Nobilis:       Senatorial:      Eques Romanus:      Local magistrate:  
Republican Family / Cognomen
Patrician n/a
Pleb. Nobilis n/a
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain n/a
Imperial Family / Cognomen
Imperators n/a
Consular Caedicianus, Valens
Senatorial n/a
Equestrian n/a
Equestrian (mil) Severus, Torquatus, Tuscianus
Local magistrat. n/a
Uncertain n/a
Republican Consuls, Tribunes with consular power, Dictators, Magister Equitum, Censors n/a
Imperial Consuls and Emperors (Augusti and Caesars) 3 incl. 0 emperors
Notes:
Literature Cebeillac: Quaestores Principis (1972) p.119-120 (L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, q Aug c.125)
Crook: Consilium Principis (1955) p.165 (§154 L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens cos suff 138, regular jurist of Antoninus Pius))
Eck, Werner, MacDonald, David. and Pangerl, Andreas: "Neue Militärdiplome mit Konsulndaten", in Chiron Bd. 32, 2002, p.406-409, cf AE2002-1729 [NOT AVAILABLE TO ME]
dates Q. Aburnius Caecidianus as cos suff in 118 or 119; but see newer article by Eck and Pangerl
Eck, Werner and Pangerl, Andreas: "Ein consul suffectus Q. Aburnius in drei fragmentarischen Diplomen", in ZPE Bd.185, 2013, p.239-247,(their detailed analysis of a new third diploma 
moves the suffect consulate of Q. Aburnius Caecidianus from 118 or 119 to 120 or 121)
Eck, Werner and Weiss, P.: "Hadrianische Konsuln: Neue Zeugnisse aus Militärdiplomen", in Chiron Bd. 32, 2002, p.453-457, cf AE2002-1763, 
dates Q. Aburnius Caecidianus as cos suff in 118 or 119; but see newer article by Eck and Pangerl
Fitz: Pannonien (1993-1995) p.814-815 (§475 L. Aburnius Severus, praef of alae in 146), p.862 (L. Aburnius Torquatus)
Franke: Legionslegaten (1991) p.239-240  (§101 Q. Aburnius Caedicianus, leg leg of XIII Gem, not governor of Dacia)
Kunkel: Herkunft der Juristen (1952) p.151-153 (L. Fulvius C.f. Aburnius Valens cos suff 138)
Le Bohec: Troisième Légion Auguste (1989)  p.137 ('[L.(?) A]burn[ius Tuscianus] , tr mil of III Aug)
Piso: Fasti Daciae I (1993) p.213-214 (§50 Q. Aburnius Caedicianus, leg leg (not governor) between 106 and 115; no evidence for a consulate)
Piso: Fasti Daciae II (2013) p.42-43 (corrects Daciae I: now cos suff 118 or 119, and leg leg dating moved to c.110112-115)
Salomies: Nomenclature (1992) p.28 (§7 L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens, probably the jurist and not his father)
Schumacher: Prosopographische Untersuchungen 96-235 (1973) p.22, 280 (§A52 L. Fulvius Aburnius Valens cos suff 118)
Schumacher: Priesterkollegien 69-235 (1978) p.672 (§P64 L. Fulvius C.f. Aburnius Valens cos suff 138)
Setälä: Roman Brick Stamps (1977) p.43-47 (Q. Aburnius Caedicianus, stamps from 123-127 and 140)
Stein: Dazien (1944) p.20-21 (Q. Aburnius Caedicianus, both governor of Pann Sup and leg leg of XIII Gem possibly son of cos 109)
Syme, Ronald: "A Dozen Early Priesthoods", in ZPE Bd.77, 1989, p.241-259, republished in Syme: RP Vol.6, p.421-434 (especially 425-426) (L. Fulvius C.f. Aburnius Valens)
Changes 2014.01.04 Header restructured plus updates.
2019.12.21 New header, reference list plus many updates incl. new dating of cos suff Q. Aburnius Caecidianus to 120 or 121 and adding the equestrian family from Caria.
REPUBLIC
IMPERIAL                                                                      
A21b RE1a S387 RE Sentius 7a A20 PME-A5
C.Aburnius Valens L.Fulvius Rusticus Cn. Sentius Aburnianus [L.(?) A]burn[ius Tuscianus] 
jurist cos suff 123 from Heraclea in Caria in Asia, 
cos suff 109 related to Caedicianus or Valens  praef fabrum at Roma,
AE 1987, 854 = 1990, 860 =  by mother or adoption ? tr mil leg III Aug in Africa, II praef coh equitatae in Syria,
Roxan RMD 148  ? curator coh in Syria, curator annonae in Parthian war 114-117
adopted tr mil VI Fer in Syria (donis donatus) by 117 praef alae in Syria,
         
A21 RE1 LP21-8 F526 A21a RE2 Rüpke1756   B164 B161 RE5 RE5a S386 RE Sentius 7 PME-A4
Q. Aburnius Caedicianus L. Fulvius C.f. Aburnius Valens C. Bruttius Praesens   C. Sentius Aburnianus L. Aburnius Aburni Tusciani f. Torquatus
leg leg XIII Gemina in Dacia 106/115 trib Pupinia, jurist L. Fulvius Rusticus boy ministral to frat Arv 120 from Heraclea in Caria in Asia, 
or leg Aug pro pr Dacia Sup equo publico, clar iuvenis, cos suff 120/121 cos II 139 praef coh in Tingitana, tr coh in Cappadocia,
cos suff 120 or 121 praef urbi feriarum Latinarum 118 praef alae in Dacia or Pann Inf,
dominus of figlinae 123-140  III vir mon, q Aug c.125 tr pl Aug, period of Trajan
his mother possibly a Caedicia  consilium principis of Antoninus PIUS
cos suff c.138 ?
pont before tr pl,  
PME-A3 
L. Aburnius Severus
from Heraclea in Caria in Asia, 
praef alae in Pann Sup 146 (AE1947-135)
and in 145 (cf AE2005-1719)
UNCERTAIN DATE