Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus was a

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active during the first half of the second century AD. He was ordinary consul for 127 as the colleague of

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. Gallicanus is known only from inscriptions. The origins of the family of Gallicanus lie in

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; an inscription mentioning one M. Gavius M.f. Pob. Squillianus has been recovered from there.

Family

Gallicanus was married to a woman named Pompeia Agrippinilla. Two men are known to be his sons:

Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus was a Roman senator, who was active during the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He was suffect consul in 150 AD with Sextus Carminius Vetus as his colleague. He was also proconsular governor of Asia in ...

, ordinary consul in 150, and

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, ordinary consul in 165.

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, ''Konsulat und Senatorenstand unter den Antoninen'' (Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 1977), p. 89 n. 60

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2nd-century Roman consuls Squilla Gallicanus {{AncientRome-politician-stub

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