c. 244–311 CE · Roman emperor
Diocletian
Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: 298 CE
Took Alexandria after a siege in 298. A 10th-century source, the Suda, says he had the Egyptians' old books on making gold and silver burned. A granite column was raised in his honour in the Serapeum's precinct.
Our device: Their emblem is a granite column. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
Moments
- 297–298 CE · Diocletian's siege; the books on gold-making burned; Zosimos Known: attested
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