Marcus Magius Maximus
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Marcus Magius Maximus
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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. 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. While prefect of Egypt, Maximus had an obelisk that Ptolemy I
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Prefect or governor of Roman Egypt
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Magius_Maximus
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2024-01-25T13:45:00Z
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