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Gaius Valerius Pudens

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Governor of Britannia from AD202/203 to 205 or later

Little is known of this British governor other than the fact that he carried out, or at least started, restoration work at two widely-spaced forts in the north of England, the work on the granaries at Corstopitum (Corbridge, Northumberland) was actually completed by his successor Alfenus Senecio, assuming the last two lines of the dedicatory inscription (RIB 1151) have been correctly restored.

Valerius Pudens - Epigraphic Evidence

RIB 591 Ribchester, Lancashire
RIB 1151 Corbridge, Northumberland

Ribchester, Lancashire RIB 591 [date: 205] IMP CAES AVG ET ...AVG ET ...... C VALERIO PVDENTE LEG AVGG PR PR "Imperator Caesar (Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax) Augustus, and [Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus] Augustus, and [Julia Domna, supervised by] Gaius Valerius Pudens, pro-praetorian legate of the two Augusti".

Corbridge, Northumberland RIB 1151 [date: 205-8] IMP CAES L SEP SEVERVS PI PERTINAX ET IMP CAESAR M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVGVSTI ET P SEPTIMIVS [GETA] CAESAR HORREVM PER VEXILLATIONEM LEG ... FECERVNT SVB L ALFENO SENECIONE LEG AVGG PR PR FECEVRVNT SVB G VALERIO PVDENTE LEG AVG PR PR "The emperor Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax and the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus and Publius Septimius Geta Caesar built this granary through the agency of a detachment of the ... Legion ... under Lucius Alfenus Senecio, Legate of the Augusti with pro-praetorian power, started under Gaius Valerius Pudens, Legate of the Augustus with pro-praetorian power".

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