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Normal practice was to also allocate a province to a senator of praetorian rank to govern for about three years, but much of the rest of the inscription on the
Colossi of Memnon, is lost so it is uncertain if that was the case with Faustus. Because priestly offices appear at the beginning of the list
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The rest of his life is a blank except for one event: the inscribing of this text at Luxor. The simplest explanation for this inscription was that
Faustus carved it himself, attesting that he had been a member of Hadrian's entourage visiting Egypt in 128. However, there is no reason against the
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Information about his family is uncertain. A tombstone found at Rome commemorates Marcus Fabius
Faustus, the son of a Marcus Herennius Faustus and Fabia Felicia; the Herennius Faustus mentioned in this inscription may be the same individual as the consul, but identification is not certain.
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and consul in 205. If this identification is correct, this inscription would attest to an otherwise unknown consul who lived in the late second century/early third. On the other hand,
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dates his tenure as commander of this legion to between the years 106 and 119. Two inscriptions, one an altar dedicated to the god
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