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Uranius
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(Οὐράνιος/Ouránios).

[German version]

[0] Usurper, mid 3rd cent.

L. Iulius Aurelius Sulpicius Severus U. Antoninus, usurper, who had coins minted in Emesa in 253/4; very likely identical with the priest of Aphrodite Sampsigeramus (Ioh. Mal. 12 p. 296 f.) who warded off an attack on Emesa by the Persian army in 253, in the course of which their leader (in the text Sapor [1] I himself) was killed. It may be that Or. Sib.…

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Schottky, Martin (Pretzfeld), Rist, Josef (Würzburg) and Gärtner, Hans Armin (Heidelberg), “Uranius”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1225390>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



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