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This image is a fictional historical visualization. No authentic portrait of Aulus Gratius Potens is known to survive.
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Aulus Gratius Potens

A soldier of the Twenty-Second Legion whose altar records the rare title matricarius.

Biography
of Aulus Gratius Potens

Aulus Gratius Potens served as a soldier in Legio XXII Primigenia, based at Mogontiacum (Mainz). In AD 236 he and Aulus Gratius Iuvenis, named as pater sacrorum (‘Father of the rites’), dedicated a sandstone altar (TNMM 519; CIMRM 1243) at Bingium in Germania Superior. They paid for it themselves in fulfilment of a vow to the Unconquered Mithras and in honour of the imperial house. The inscription dates the dedication by naming Africanus as consul.The dedication calls Potens and Iuvenis fratres (‘brothers’). Clauss (1992) understood them to be brothers, a reading supported by their…

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