Publius_Cornelius_Dolabella_(consul_55) Knowpia

Publius Cornelius Dolabella was a Roman senator, who was active during the reign of Nero. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of May to June 55 as the colleague of Seneca the Younger.^[1]

A member of the patrician order, he is likely the son of Publius Cornelius Dolabella, consul in 10; it is also likely he was the father of Servius Cornelius Dolabella Petronianus, consul in 86.^[2]

References edit

^ Giuseppe Camodeca, "I consoli des 55–56 e un nuovo collega di seneca nel consolato: P. Cornelius Dolabella (TP.75 =1401 +135)*", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 63 (1986), pp. 201–215.
^ Patrick Tansey, "The Perils of Prosopography: The Case of the Cornelii Dolabellae", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 130 (2000), pp. 265-271

Political offices
Preceded by Numerius Cestius, and Lucius Antistius Vetus as Suffect consuls	Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 55 with Lucius Annaeus Seneca	Succeeded by Gn. Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus, and Titus Curtilius Mancia as Suffect consuls