11-01-2014, 02:45 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-24-2017, 11:19 PM by Nathan Ross.)
Quote:two twin Roman Senators whose surname CAFUS related to a Roman Senatorial family
This doesn't sound like a Roman name, and I've never heard of any senators with a cognomen like that. The closest might be the Jewish priest, Caiaphus, perhaps?
Quote:the settlement of British Roman veterans of the 10th Roman Legion Fretensis-Antoniniana in the Italian Region of Abruzzo
X Fretensis had been based in the east (Syria, then Jerusalem) since the 1st century BC, and it's highly unlikely the legion included any Romano-Britons. In any case, the practice of settling veterans on land in Italy (and of demobilising legions en masse) had ended after the civil wars of the 30s BC.
Incidentally, 'Antoniniana' refers either to the emperor Caracalla or Elagabalus. The inscription from Jerusalem apparently has both titles, but the second seems to have been added in a different hand at a later date.
Quote:the 10th Legion Fretensis was being reconstituted in Italy before being shipped out to Jerusalem
Where are you getting this idea? Imperial legions were not periodically 'reconstituted', and very few troops were raised in Italy after the 1st century AD.
Nathan Ross
