Fiscus was the name of the personal treasury of the emperors of Rome. The word is literally translated as "basket" or "purse" and was used to describe those forms of revenue collected from the provinces (specifically the imperial provinces), which were then granted to the emperor. Its existence pointed to the division of power in the early era of the Empire between the imperial court and the Senate. In subsequent years, as the emperors assumed greater control over the finances of the Roman world, the size of the fiscus was increased. Juvenal satirized the entire treasury by writing that a turbot of great size caught in the Adriatic had to be sent to Rome as part of Domitian's fiscus. Titus Flavius Domitianus (24 October 51 &ndash 18 September 96 commonly known as Domitian, was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 14 September 81 until his death

The head of the fiscus in the first years was the rationalis, originally a freedman due to Augustus' desire to place the office in the hands of a servant free of the class demands of the traditional society. The Rationalis was the Roman Empire 's chief financial minister prior to the reforms of Emperor Diocletian and the Late Empire In succeeding years the corruption and reputation of the freedman forced new and more reliable administrators. From the time of Hadrian (117-138), any rationalis hailed from the Equestrian Order (equites) and remained so through the chaos of the 3rd century and into the age of Diocletian. Publius Aelius Hadrianus (January 24 76 &ndash July 10 138 as emperor Imperator Caesar Divi Traiani filius Traianus Hadrianus Augustus, and Divus Hadrianus after Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus ( ca. December 22 244 The modern historian Timothy Barnes takes December 22 as his birthdate

See also

• Aerarium
• comes
• Congiarium
• rationalis
• rationibus
• Roman finance
• Fiscus Iudaicus

External links

• Fiscus, article in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities

Aerarium (from Latin "aes" in its derived sense of "money" was the name (in full "aerarium stabulum" - treasure-house given in Ancient Rome The French Solar Energy Authority ( Commissariat à l'Energie Solaire, ComES) a public Scientific and industrial entity was set up in Of Ancient Roman containers a congiarium, or congiary, ( Latin, from Congius) was a vessel containing one Congius, a measure The Rationalis was the Roman Empire 's chief financial minister prior to the reforms of Emperor Diocletian and the Late Empire A rationibus was the Roman Empire 's secretary of finance in charge of maintaining the accounts and expenditures of the Fiscus which is the imperial treasury For centuries the monetary affairs of the Roman Republic had rested in the hands of the Senate, which was steady and fiscally conservative

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