05-12-2014, 02:18 PM
Quote:We know that Burnum had a masonry workshop with specialised funerary monuments, which especially after the 42AD have a representation of different tools below the inscriptions – most often those of carpenters and masons – which leads us to certain construction abilities of the deceased soldiers. Following that hypothesis, the representation of surgical tools would lead us to think that the deceased was a member of Valetudenarium, not that he died under those circumstances. ... Therefore, it is more probable that Rufus was a medical orderly, but the question remains whether that position puts him in the immunes, because he clearly states that he is a miles.Thank you for sharing your knowledge of the Burnum tombstones. Your hypothesis sounds very sensible. And, of course, the heirs of an immunis would naturally refer to him simply as miles, which was his proper rank.
