Philippus II
Marcus Julius Philippus Severus, also known as Philippus II, Philip II or Philip the Younger (238–249) was the son and heir of the Roman emperor Philip the Arab by his wife Roman empress Marcia Otacilia Severa.
He was a boy of seven at the accession (244 AD) of his father, by whom he was forthwith proclaimed Caesar, and three years afterwards (247 AD) chosen consul, being at the same time admitted to share the purple with the title of Augustus.
His second consulship (248 AD) corresponds with the celebration of the secular solemnities, and in the autumn of 249 AD he was slain, according to Zosimus, at the battle of Verona, or murdered, according to Victor, at Rome by the praetorians, when intelligence arrived of the defeat and death of the emperor.
Nothing has been recorded with regard to this youth, who perished at the age of twelve, except that he was of a singularly serious and stern temperament. His names and titles were the same with those of the elder Philip, with the addition of Severus, found upon some Pamphylian coins, and derived, it would seem, from his mother Otacilia Severa.
Marble bust portrait
Roman Sculpture about 249 AD
Legato Giovanni Grimaldi
Venice, National Archaeological Museum
Philippus II
Marcus Julius Philippus Severus, also known as Philippus II, Philip II or Philip the Younger (238–249) was the son and heir of the Roman emperor Philip the Arab by his wife Roman empress Marcia Otacilia Severa.
He was a boy of seven at the accession (244 AD) of his father, by whom he was forthwith proclaimed Caesar, and three years afterwards (247 AD) chosen consul, being at the same time admitted to share the purple with the title of Augustus.
His second consulship (248 AD) corresponds with the celebration of the secular solemnities, and in the autumn of 249 AD he was slain, according to Zosimus, at the battle of Verona, or murdered, according to Victor, at Rome by the praetorians, when intelligence arrived of the defeat and death of the emperor.
Nothing has been recorded with regard to this youth, who perished at the age of twelve, except that he was of a singularly serious and stern temperament. His names and titles were the same with those of the elder Philip, with the addition of Severus, found upon some Pamphylian coins, and derived, it would seem, from his mother Otacilia Severa.
Marble bust portrait
Roman Sculpture about 249 AD
Legato Giovanni Grimaldi
Venice, National Archaeological Museum