Caracalla
c. 188 CE–c. 217 CE · Lyon
Caracalla (born 188 CE at Lugdunum, modern Lyon; died 217 CE) was a Severan emperor best known for the Antonine Constitution (Constitutio Antoniniana) of 212 CE, which extended Roman citizenship to nearly all free inhabitants of the empire and, for the first time, nominally brought Jews across the empire into the body of Roman citizens. No anti-Jewish or anti-Christian legislation is recorded during his short reign, continuing the relative rapprochement with the Jewish community begun under his father Septimius Severus. Later Jewish tradition celebrated an emperor "Antoninus" as a friend of Rabbi Yehuda ha-Nasi, redactor of the Mishnah; Caracalla is one of several Severan-era figures scholars have proposed for that identification, which remains uncertain.
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