Parthica Legion - Caduceus emblem?

[Robert Vermaat]

Based on our knowledge and the survived material there are many possibilities besides the assumed standard theory. The original tombe stone were destroyed during the Prussian siege of Straßburg in 1870. 

What more possibilities are you thinking of?

Actually I'm thinking it's not a tombstone at all, but perhaps a decorative stele, maybe for the camp gate. The stele from Linz (Austria) has a similar soldier, and because it's a mirror image it's assumed there were two of them, probably facing each other. I don't think there was a second Lepontius but I do think it was perhaps decorative rather than a funerary monument.

There is one good copy at the Romano-Germanic Central Museum in Mainz.

Actually I have only seen photos taken of the copy from Palais Rohan in Strassbourg. I know there were supposedly three casts made fromt he original.