This is a list of known governors of the Roman province of Asia. Created after 133 BC, the province was eventually reorganized by the emperor Augustus who assigned it to the Senate as a proconsular governorship. The province was divided by Diocletian during his reorganization of the empire during the 290s, and a small portion of the province retained the name. Eventually the province was absorbed into the Thracesian Theme sometime during the seventh century. Many of the dates listed are approximate dates for the holding of the office.
Unless otherwise indicated, entries for the Republican period are based on T.R.S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1952), vol. II.
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from K.M.T. Atkinson, "The Governors of the Province Asia in the Reign of Augustus", Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte, 7 (1958), pp. 300–330
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Vedius Pollio[9] | 31/30 BC | N/A | propraetor |
Marcus Herennius Picens | ? 28/27 BC | suff. 34 BC | Broughton dates his tenure to 33/32 BC[10] |
Lucius Vinicius | ? 27/26 BC | suff. 33 BC | |
Lucius Volcacius Tullus | ? 26/25 BC | ord. 33 BC | |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | ? 24/23 BC | ord. 30 BC | |
Sextus Appuleius | ? 23/22 BC | ord. 29 BC | |
Gaius Junius Silanus | ? 22/21 BC | ord. 17 BC | |
Potitus Valerius Messalla | ? 21-19 BC | suff. 29 BC | |
Gaius Norbanus Flaccus | ? 18/17 or 17/16 BC | ord. 24 BC | |
Quintus Aemilius Lepidus | 15/14 or 14/13 BC | ord. 21 BC | If the subject of the acephalous Titulus Tibertinus (ILS 918) is Gaius Sentius Saturninus (cos. 19 BC), then he was proconsul in 14/13 BC.[11] |
Gaius Marcius Censorinus | ? 13/12 BC | ord. 8 BC | Syme[12] dates Censorinus to 2/3 BC |
Marcus Vinicius[13] | ? 12-10 BC | suff. 19 BC | Claude Eilers[14] dates Vinicius to 13/12 BC |
Paullus Fabius Maximus[15] | 10/9 BC | ord. 11 BC | |
Paullus Fabius Maximus | ? 9/8 BC | ord. 11 BC | If the subject of the acephalous Titulus Tibertinus is Lucius Calpurnius Piso (cos. 15 BC), then he was proconsul in 9/8 BC[16] |
Publius Cornelius Scipio | ? 8/7 BC | ord. 16 BC | Eilers[17] dates Scipio to 12-10 BC |
Iullus Antonius | ? 7/6 BC | ord. 10 BC | |
Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus | 6/5 BC | ord. 8 BC | |
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Augur | 2/1 BC | ord. 14 BC | Lentulus the Augur is often confused with his relative L. Cornelius Lentulus, cos. 15 BC |
Publius Sulpicius Quirinius | ? AD 1/2 | ord. 12 BC | If the subject of the acephalous Titulus Tibertinus is Quirnius, then he was proconsul this year.[18] |
Gaius Antistius Vetus | AD 2/3 or 3/4 | ord. 6 BC | |
Marcus Plautius Silvanus | AD 4/5 | ord. 2 BC | |
Gaius Vibius Postumus | ? AD 6-9 | suff. AD 5 | Syme[19] dates Postumus to AD 12-15 |
Lucius Calpurnius Piso[20] | ? AD 9/10 | ord. 1 BC | Syme[12] dates Piso to AD 1/2 |
Publius Vinicius[21] | ? AD 10/11 | ord. AD 2 | Son of the proconsul of 12-10 BC |
Lucius Valerius Messalla Volesus[21] | ? AD 12/13 | suff. AD 5 | Son of the proconsul of 21-19 BC |
Lucius Volusius Saturninus[21] | ? AD 13/14 | suff. AD 3 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Ronald Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls of Asia", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 53 (1983), pp. 191–208
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Sextus Nonius Quinctilianus | ? 16/17 | ord. 8 | |
Quintus Poppaeus Secundus | ? 17/18 | suff. 9 | |
Gaius Junius Silanus | 20/21 | ord. 10 | |
Manius Aemilius Lepidus | 21/22 | ord. 11 | |
Gaius Fonteius Capito | 23/24 or 22/23 | ord. 12 | |
Favonius | 24/25 or 25/26 | unknown | Syme (1983, p. 200) identifies with Lucilius Longus, suff. 7 BC |
Sextus Pompeius | 24/25 or 24/26 | ord. 14 | Syme (History in Ovid, p. 161) suggests Pompeius was prorogued two years. |
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus | 26-28 | cos. 6 | Ursula Vogel-Weidemann[22] suggests Lepidus may have been prorogued a third year. |
Publius Petronius | ? 29-35 | suff. 19 | |
Marcus Aurelius Cotta Maximus Messalinus | ? 35/36 | ord. 20 | |
Gaius Vibius Rufinus | ? 36/37 | suff. 21 or 22 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls", pp. 191–208
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Gaius Calpurnius Aviola | 37/38 | suff. 24 | |
Gaius Asinius Pollio | ? 38/39 | ord. 23 | |
Marcus Vinicius | ? 39/40 | ord. 30; ord. II 45 | |
Gaius Cassius Longinus | 40/41 | suff. 30 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls", pp. 191–208
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Publius Cornelius Lentulus Scipio | ? 41/42 | suff. 24 | |
Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus | ? 42/43 | suff. 27 | |
Paullus Fabius Persicus | ? 43/44 | ord. 34 | |
Publius Memmius Regulus | ? 48/49 | suff. 31 | |
Aulus Didius Gallus | 49/50 | suff. 39 | |
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo | 50/51 | suff. 39 | |
Publius Suillius Rufus | 51/52 | suff. 41 | |
Lucius Pedanius Secundus | 52/53 | suff. 43 | |
Tiberius Plautius Silvanus Aelianus | 53/54 | suff. 45; suff. II 74 | Ursula Vogel-Weidemann dates to 55/56 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Syme, "Problems about Proconsuls", pp. 191–208
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Marcus Junius Silanus | 54 | cos. 46 | Died in office[23] |
? Marius Cordus | 55/56 | suff. 45 or 47 | |
? M. Vettius Niger[24] | 56/57 | unknown | |
Q. Allius Maximus | 57/58 | suff. 49 | So Ursula Vogel-Weidemann; Syme ("Problems about Proconsuls", p. 204) is dubious |
Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola | 58/59 | cos. 48 | |
Quintus Marcius Barea Soranus | ? 61/62 | suff. 52 | |
P. Volasenna | ? 62/63 | suff. c. 54 | |
Lucius Salvius Otho Titianus | 63/64 | cos. 52 | |
Lucius Antistius Vetus | 64/65 | cos. 55 | |
Manius Acilius Aviola | 65/66 | cos. 54 | |
Marcus Aefulanus | ? 66/67 | suff. 54 | |
Marcus Aponius Saturninus | ? 67/68 | suff. c. 55 | Eck, Chiron 1983, p. 189; p. 213: "unter Nero" |
Gaius Fonteius Agrippa | 69 | suff. 58 | Called to Moesia in Autumn, 69 (Tacitus, Histories, iii.46) |
Marcus Plancius Varus | 69 | N/A | Legatus proconsulis serving in Agrippa's absence; attested by coins from Apamea |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 284–303
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Marcus Suillius Nerullinus | 69/70 | ord. 50 | Appointed to complete the term |
Titus Clodius Eprius Marcellus | 70-73 | suff. 62 | |
Aulus Ducenius Geminus[25] | 73/74 | suff. 60 or 61 | |
Marcus Vettius Bolanus | 75/76 | suff. 66 | |
Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus | 77/78 | suff. 68 | |
Gnaeus Arrius Antoninus | 78/79 | suff. 69 | |
Marcus Ulpius Trajanus | 79/80 | suff. c. 70 | |
Gaius Laecanius Bassus Caecina Paetus | 80/81 | suff. 70 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 304–323
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Sextus Julius Frontinus | 84/85 | suff. 73 | |
Publius Nonius Asprenas Caesius Cassianus | 86/87 | suff. 72 or 73 | |
Gaius Vettulenus Civica Cerealis | 87/88 | suff. between 73 and 76 | Removed before the completion of his term |
Gaius Minicius Italus[26] | 88 | N/A | Equestrian procurator of Asia, replaced Cerealis |
Lucius Mestrius Florus | 88/89 | suff. between 73 and 76 | |
Marcus Fulvius Gillo | 89/90 | suff. 76 | |
Lucius Luscius Ocrea | 90/91 | suff. 77 or 78 | |
Publius Calvisius Ruso Julius Frontinus | 92/93 | suff. c. 84 | |
Lucius Junius Caesennius Paetus | 93/94 | suff. 79 | |
Marcus Atilius Postumus Bradua | 94/95 | suff. 80 | |
Rufus[27] | ? 91/91 or ? 95/96 | unknown | Eck suggests either Quintus Corellius Rufus (suff. 78), or C. Marius Marcellus Octavius Rufus (suff. 80)[28] |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten", pp. 324–362
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Lucius Calventius Sextus Carminius Vetus | 96/97 | suff. 83 | |
Gnaeus Pedanius Fuscus Salinator | 98/99 | suff. c. 84 | |
Q. Julius Balbus | 100/101 | suff. 85 | |
[Q. Vibius?] Secun(dus) | 101/102 | suff. 86 | |
C. Aquillius Proculus | 103/104 | suff. 90 | |
L. Albius Pullaienus Pollio | 104/105 | suff. 90 | |
Tiberius Julius Celsus Polemaeanus | 105/106 | suff. 92 | |
[L. Dasumius?] Hadrianus | 106/107 | unknown | If identical with the suffect, his consulate was before 87 |
Lucius Nonius Calpurnius Torquatus Asprenas | 107/108 | cos. 94 | |
Marcus Lollius Paulinus Decimus Valerius Asiaticus Saturninus | 108/109 | suff. 94 | |
Gaius Antius Aulus Julius Quadratus | 109/110 | suff. 94 | |
Lucius Baebius Tullus | 110/111 | suff. 95 | |
Quintus Fabius Postuminus | 111/112 | suff. 96 | |
Cornelius Tacitus | 112/113 | suff. 97 | |
Aulus Vicirius Martialis | 113/114 | suff. 98 | |
M. (Ostorius) Scapula | 114/115 | suff. 97 | |
Quintus Fulvius Gillo Bittius Proculus | 115/116 | suff. 98 | |
Ti. Julius Ferox | 116/117 | suff. 99 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 13 (1983), pp. 147–185
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Syme "The Proconsuls of Asia under Antoninus Pius", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 51 (1983), 271-290
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Lucius Venuleius Apronianus Octavius Priscus[30] | 138/139 | ord. 123 | |
Lucius Valerius Propinquus | 140/141 | suff. 126 | |
? Sextus Julius Major | 141/142 | suff. c. 126 | It is possible he was proconsul of Africa instead. |
? Q. Insteius Celer | 142/143 | suff. c. 128 | |
? Tiberius Julius Candidus Celsus | 143/144 | suff. c. 129 | |
(Tiberius Claudius?) Julianus | 144/145 | suff. 129/130 | |
Tiberius Claudius Quartinus | 145/146 | suff. 130 | |
Lucius Antonius Albus | 147/148 | suff. c. 132 | |
Q. Flavius Tertullus | 148/149 | suff. 133 | |
Popillius Priscus | 149/150 | suff. c. 132 | |
Publius Mummius Sisenna | 150/151 | ord. 133 | |
Titus Vitrasius Pollio | 151/152 | suff. c. 137 | |
Gaius Julius Severus | 152/153 | suff. c. 138 | |
Lucius Tutilius Lupercus Pontianus[31] | 153/154 | ord. 135 | |
? Marcus Peducaeus Stloga Priscinus | 155/156 | ord. 141 | |
Lucius Statius Quadratus | 156/157 | ord. 142 | |
Titus Statilius Maximus | 157/158 | ord. 144 | |
Publius Mummius Sisenna Rutilianus | 160/161 | suff. 146 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Alföldy, Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977) pp. 214–217
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Quintus Cornelius Proculus | 161/162 | suff. 146 | |
Gaius Popilius Carus Pedo | 162/163 | suff. 147 | |
Quintus Pompeius Sosius Priscus | 163/164 | ord. 149 | |
Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus | 164/165 | ord. 150 | |
D. Fonteius Fronto | 165/166 | suff. c. 150 | Of Asia, per French;[32] Christol and Drew-Bear argue Fronto was one of the first proconsuls of Lycia et Pamphylia.[33] |
Lucius Sergius Paullus | 166/167 | suff. c. 151 | |
Titus Pomponius Proculus Vitrasius Pollio | 167/168 | suff. c. 151 | |
Gaius Bruttius Praesens[34] | ? 168/169 | ord. 153, 180 | |
Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus | ? 169/170 | ord. 151 | |
Marcus Nonius Macrinus | 170/171 | suff. 154 | |
Lucius Aemilius Juncus | ? 171/172 | suff. c. 154 | |
M. Junius Rufinus Sabrinianus | ? 172/173 | ord. 155 | |
Sextus Sulpicius Tertullus | ? 173/174 | ord. 158 | |
Vibius Bassus | between 155 and 175 | suff. between 138 and 160 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 221f
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Publius Julius Geminius Marcianus | c. 182 | suff. 165 or 166 | |
Novius P[riscus] | between 180 and 183 | suff. between 166 and 168 | |
L. A[e]milius [Frontus] | between 182 and 185 | suff. between 161 and 166 | |
Quintus Pompeius Senecio Sosius Priscus | c. 184 | ord. 169 | |
Gaius Arrius Antoninus | between 188 and 190 | suff. c. 173 | |
(L.?) (Ulpius?) Marcellus | 189/190 | suff. c. 174 | perhaps the same as Ulpius Marcellus (Leunissen, pp. 221f) |
Sulpicius Crassus | 190/191 or 191/192 | suff. c. 175/176 | |
Titus Flavius Claudius Sulpicianus | Between 180 and 192 | suff. between 165 and 175 | Inge Mennen dates to 186[35] |
Asellius Aemilianus | 192/193 | suff. c. 177 | Supported Pescennius Niger in 193. (HA, "Severus", 8) |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Ségolène Demougin, "Proconsuls d'Asie sous Septime Sévère, les gouverneurs de la province de 200 à 211", Bulletin de la Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, 1994 (1996), pp. 323-333
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Lucius Albinius Saturninus[36] | between 190 and 200 | suff. between 175 and 182 | |
Lucius Aemilius Iuncus[37] | 193/194 | suff. 179 | |
Quintus Aurelius Polus Terentianus | 200/201 | suff. between 188 and 190 | |
Quintus Hedius Rufus Lollianus Gentianus | 201/202 | suff. c. 186 | |
Tarius Titianus | ? 202/203 | suff. between 187 and 190 | Michel Christol and Thomas Drew-Bear note he might have been governor of Africa[38] |
L. Calpurnius Proculus | ? 203/204 | between 186 and 190 | |
Q. Licinius Nepos | ? 204/205 | between 180 and 191 | Demougin notes[39] Nepos could have been consul at the beginning of the reign of Septimus Severus, which would require a later date. |
Popilius Pedo Apronianus | 205 | ord. 191 | Executed while proconsul |
Aelius Aglaus | 205/206 | N/A | procurator Asiae, agens uice praedisidis |
Quintus Tineius Sacerdos | 206/207 | suff. 192 | Christol and Drew-Bear date between 206 and 208[40] |
[...]us | 207/208 | unknown | Christol and Drew-Bear note he could be identified with a known proconsul[41] |
Quintus Caecilius Secundus Servilianus | 208/209 | suff. c. 193 | |
[Sem]pronius Senecio[41] | 209/210 | suff. c. 195/196 | C.P Jones has shown that Ti. Manilius Fuscus was not proconsul of Asia.[42] |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 224f
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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T. [...] | attested 211 | suff. c. 195 | |
C. Gabinius Barbarus Pompeianus | ? 211/212 | suff. 194 | |
Gavius Tranquillus | ? 212/213 | suff. c. 197 | |
(M.?) Junius Concessus Aemillianus | ? 213/214 | suff. c. 198 | |
Lucius Marius Maximus Perpetuus Aurelianus[43] | 213-215 | suff. c. 199 | |
Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus[43] | 215/216 | suff. c. 200 |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 225f
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Gaius Julius Asper | 217/218 | ord. II 212 | designatus |
Quintus Anicius Faustus | 217-219 | suff. 198? | |
M. Aufidius Fronto | between 219 and 222 | ord. 199 | |
C. Aufidius Marcellus | between 219 and 222 | suff. c. 205; ord. II 226 | |
(M. Nummius Umbrius Primus Senecio?) Albinus | c. 221 | ? ord. 206 | Mentioned in the Constitutio Antoniniana; identification with the consul of 206 uncertain. |
Unless otherwise stated, the following entries are taken from Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln und Konsulare in der Zeit von Commodus bis Severus Alexander (Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1989), pp. 226-228
Name | Date proconsul | Date consul | Notes |
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Quintus (Hedius) Lollianus Plantius Avitus | c. 224 | ord. 209 | |
Q. Ai[acius Modestus Crescentianus?] | between 211 and 228 | suff. between 198 and 204; II ord. 228 | |
Amicus | Autumn 230 or 231 | suff. 215 or 216 | |
Marcus Clodius Pupienus Maximus | c. 229 | suff. between 193 and 217; II ord. 234 | |
(Q. Virius Egnatius?) Sulpicius Priscus | Between 222 and 235 | suff. between 193 and 217 | |
Gaius Asinius Nicomachus Julianus | After 222 | suff. between 193 and 235 |