Attius Insteius Tertullus (flourished between 280-308) was a Roman

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 urban prefect

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He was a descendant of Lucius Insteius Tertullus, who was sodalis Augustalis

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(i.e. priest of the deified Augustus

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) in 214. Having risen to become a senator, Tertullus served as consul suffect before his appointments as proconsul of Africa

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 and praefectus urbi in 307-308. He was honoured by an inscription from Patavium, and was probably the father of Attius Insteius Tertullus Populonius, imperial governor

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 of Apulia

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 and Calabria

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Sources

• A.H.M.Jones & J.R. Martindale, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol I (260-395 AD) (1971–1980) (Tertullus - 6).