Dando-Collins, \'Legions of Rome\'

[D B Campbell]

just wondering whether the identification of the 'eque' bit as part of the legion name is secure, or whether it could mean anything else. Could it?

It's in the right place for the legionary title, whereas I'd've thought that any reference to the legionary horsemen would take the form equites (rather than eque-).

D-C claims the inscription is dated to 2bc, but I don't see it listed as such anywhere else - what's he drawing on for this? Anything?

From its find-spot, the fragment is thought to derive from the Arch of Drusus (minor) at the Temple of Mars Ultor. The Temple was dedicated in 2 BC, but the Arches of Drusus and Germanicus were erected on either side of it in AD 19 (according to Tacitus, Annals 2.64).