Lucius Volusius Saturninus (38 BC-56) was a renowned Ancient Roman

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 statesman, a son of Lucius Volusius Saturninus

Lucius Volusius Saturninus (suffect consul)

Lucius Volusius Saturninus was a Roman senator that lived during the 1st century BC and 1st century. Saturninus came from an ancient and distinguished senatorial family the never rose above the praetorship...

, suffect consul of 12 BC and Nonia Polla. Saturninus had a sister named Volusia who was married to a man named Cornelius. His two sons were Lucius Volusius Saturninus, who became pontifex maximus

Pontifex Maximus

The Pontifex Maximus was the high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome. This was the most important position in the ancient Roman religion, open only to patricians until 254 BC, when a plebeian first occupied this post...

, and Quintus Volusius Saturninus

Quintus Volusius Saturninus

Quintus Volusius Saturninus was a Roman that lived in the 1st century and was a Roman senator during the reign of Nero and was consul in 56. He was the son of the prominent senator Lucius Volusius Saturninus who received a state funeral under Nero...

, a consul of 56. Along with his sons, Saturninus run the columbarium

Columbarium

A columbarium is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns . The term comes from the Latin columba and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons .The Columbarium of Pomponius Hylas is a particularly fine ancient Roman example, rich in...

 on Appian Way

Appian Way

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. His paternal cousin was Emperor Caligula's third wife, Lollia Paulina

Lollia Paulina

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He had a stainless reputation, a huge but legally made fortune, and was in good graces of all of the emperors. Saturninus was consul in 3 and died at age 93. To honor him, the Senate

Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic, however, it was not an elected body, but one whose members were appointed by the consuls, and later by the censors. After a magistrate served his term in office, it usually was followed with automatic...

 under the sponsorship of Emperor Nero

Nero

Nero , was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Nero was adopted by his great-uncle Claudius to become his heir and successor, and succeeded to the throne in 54 following Claudius' death....

 ordered a state funeral and the erection of a number of statues of him in major temples, theaters and civic buildings throughout Rome. The statues included a bronze one in the Forum of Augustus

Forum of Augustus

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, two marble statues in the temple of the Deified Augustus, one consular statue in the temple of the Deified Iulius, another on the Palatium intra Tripylum, a third in the forecourt of Apollo

Apollo

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 in sight of the curia, a statue as Augur

Augur

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, an equestrian statue and a statue on a curule chair sitting near the theatrum Pompeianum.

Career

Rank	Date
Augur	Before 3 AD
Suffect consul	3
Proconsul Proconsul A proconsul was a governor of a province in the Roman Republic appointed for one year by the senate. In modern usage, the title has been used for a person from one country ruling another country or bluntly interfering in another country's internal affairs.-Ancient Rome:In the Roman Republic, a...  of Asia Minor Asia Minor Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...	9 - 10
Augustalis Sodales Augustales The Sodales Augustales or Sacerdotes Augustales, or simply Augustales, were an order of Roman priests instituted by Tiberius to attend to the maintenance of the cult of Augustus and the Iulii.... , Titius Titii The Titii was a college of Roman priests, which originally represented the Italic tribe of Sabines...	14 - 56
Legatus pro praetore, probably of Illyricum Illyricum (Roman province) The Roman province of Illyricum or Illyris Romana or Illyris Barbara or Illyria Barbara replaced most of the region of Illyria. It stretched from the Drilon river in modern north Albania to Istria in the west and to the Sava river in the north. Salona functioned as its capital...	14 - 15
Legatus pro praetore of Dalmatia Dalmatia Dalmatia is a historical region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. It stretches from the island of Rab in the northwest to the Bay of Kotor in the southeast. The hinterland, the Dalmatian Zagora, ranges from fifty kilometers in width in the north to just a few kilometers in the south....	34 - 50
Prefect Prefect Prefect is a magisterial title of varying definition.... of Rome	ca. 42 - 56

External links

• Inscription Commemorating Lucius Volusius Saturninus, transcription of Nero's edict
• Volusius Saturninus entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith