11-30-2012, 10:47 PM
Quote:That is the fun with epigraphy isn't it! For every hundred "DIS MANIBUS x by y to a BENE MERENTI z H M H N S" there is something like this, or the weird one where a husband praises his wife for working wool.Titus Manlius Verus post=325514 Wrote:This has to be one of only a few hand fulls of gravestones belinging to a primus pilus. Do any other centurion gravestones resemble this one?
A quick search on the epigraphic databank brings up 140 inscriptions to primipilares, and a more careful search would probably find more. But I've never seen another quite like this one!
Nullis in verba
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
