Marcus Munatius Sulla Urbanus was a

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senator of the 3rd century. He was

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for the year 234 as the colleague of the future emperor

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. Sulla Urbanus is known entirely from inscriptions, which only attest to his consulate. While he was always known as the colleague of the later emperor, his name was only known incompletely from a fragment of a ''

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'' or list of magistrates recovered at

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as ula Urbanus. More recently, two

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s have been published which provide his full name as Marcus Munatius Urbanus.; AE 2006, 00077 Based on the names, and the time between the consulates, Andreas Krieckhaus raises the possibility that Sulla Urbanus is the son of

Marcus Munatius Sulla Cerialis Marcus Munatius Sulla Cerialis (died 219) was a Roman senator, who was active during the early third century AD. He was governor of Noricum, where he is attested by an inscription dated to around 210/212. He was consul in the year 215 as the collea ...

, consul in 215.Krieckhaus
"Vater und Sohn, Bemerkungen zu den severischen consules ordinarii M. Munatius Sulla Cerialis und M. Munatius Sulla Urbanus"
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'', 153 (2005), pp. 283f. Krieckhaus admits that his ''

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'' "Sulla" indicates Sulla Urbanus claimed descent from the

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dictator Sulla, but has no suggestion how he or his possible father are related to him.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Munatius Sulla Urbanus, Marcus 3rd-century Roman consuls Sulla Urbanus, Marcus