03-21-2007, 12:13 AM
Salvete!
Here another question from me:
I've been recently looking at several tombstones again, as well as at the column of Traian, Marcus Aurelius and the arch of Septimius Severus (had a thread here somewhere which sadly didn't evolve the way I had hoped)
I noticed that while we have several tombstones of centuriones and they are always praised in literature they don't seem to appear on any of those monuments. Isn't it strange that those (most) important officers of the army don't appear there (together with other ranks like an optio)?
Do you have an idea why not a single centurio was depicted on these monuments?
Here another question from me:
I've been recently looking at several tombstones again, as well as at the column of Traian, Marcus Aurelius and the arch of Septimius Severus (had a thread here somewhere which sadly didn't evolve the way I had hoped)
I noticed that while we have several tombstones of centuriones and they are always praised in literature they don't seem to appear on any of those monuments. Isn't it strange that those (most) important officers of the army don't appear there (together with other ranks like an optio)?
Do you have an idea why not a single centurio was depicted on these monuments?
RESTITVTOR LIBERTATIS ET ROMANAE RELIGIONIS
DEDITICIVS MINERVAE ET MVSARVM
[Micha F.]
DEDITICIVS MINERVAE ET MVSARVM
[Micha F.]
