Lucius Fabius Gallus was a

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active during the first half of the second century AD. He was

suffect consul A consul held the highest elected political office of the Roman Republic ( to 27 BC), and ancient Romans considered the consulship the second-highest level of the ''cursus honorum'' (an ascending sequence of public offices to which politic ...

for 131 with Quintus Fabius Julianus as his colleague. Gallus is known only from non-literary sources. Until the publication of the

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mentioning him in 2005, Gallus was known only from stamps on lead pipes dated to the second century, attesting that he was the owner of a private water supply in Rome; even before the diploma had been found, Gallus had been believed to be of senatorial rank.

Werner Eck Werner Eck (born 17 December 1939) is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University, Germany, and a noted expert on the history and epigraphy of imperial Rome.Eck, W. (2007) ''The Age of Augustus''. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, cover notes. His ...

and Andreas Pangerl admit that the owner of the water supply could be a descendant of the suffect consul. It is also possible that Gallus might also be related to his consular partner Julianus.Eck and Pangerl
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Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik The ''Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik'' (commonly abbreviated ZPE; "Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy") is a peer-reviewed academic journal which contains articles that pertain to papyrology and epigraphy. It has been described as "th ...

'', 153 (2005), pp. 187-206

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