Anastasius (consul 517)
Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Sabinianus Pompeius Anastasius (floruit 517) was a politician of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Anastasius wearing the robes and insignia of a Roman consul. In his left hand, he holds a staff with the aquila, and in his right, the cloth that was dropped to signal the start of the Hippodrome races.
Life
Anastasius was the son of Sabinian, consul in 505, and of a niece of emperor Anastasius I, making him the emperor's grandnephew. He may have been the brother of Flavius Anastasius Paulus Probus Moschianus Probus Magnus, consul in 518.
He held the consulship for the year 517. His consular diptych is preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. According to the inscription (CIL V, 8120 CIL XIII, 10032) he held the honorary title of comes domesticorum equitum.
Sources
- Croke, Brian (2001), Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle, Oxford University Press, p. 89.
- Martindale, John R. (1992), "Fl. Anastasius Paulus Probus Sabinianus Pompeius Anastasius 17", The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire II, Cambridge University Press,, pp. 82–83.
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