Abstract
The study attemps to precise the chronology of the major campaigns of the Tetrarchs in 296-298. Galerius' initial defeat by the Persians is set in the very beginning of 297 and his subsequent victory over King Narses in Armenia, early in the autumn of the same year. Diocletian, accused by scholars of intriguing against Galerius, is cleared of all guilt thanks to a new interpretation of P. Argent. (= P.Strasbourg inv.) 480. The dating in the second half of 297 of the Egyptian rebellion led by L. Domitius Domitianus is sustained by new arguments against the recent attempts to set it in 296; the circumstances of the rebellion are brought in connection with the events on the Persian front. Maximianus' African campaign, preceeded by a march across Spain in the last months of 296, is shown to have started by some local fighting in Mauretania Tingitana early in 297. Several inscriptions, notably AE 1981, 777, ILS 546 and lAM 11,34 and 55, are discussed in this context.[Auteur]
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