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1st c. AD, Colchester.
He was a centurion of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix.
M(arcus) Favoni(us) M(arci) f(ilius) Pol(lia) (tribu) Faci-
lis (centurio) leg(ionis) XX; Verecund-
us et Novicius lib(erti) posu-
erunt; h(ic) s(itus) e(st)
British Museum.
2nd c. AD, Croy Hill.
National Museum of Scotland.
British Museum.
31 BC, Actium.
British Museum.
Herculaneum.
British Museum.
200-225 AD, Dura-Europos.
Only complete suriving Roman scutum.
Yale University Art Gallery.
British Museum.
100-200 AD.
British Museum.
14-19 AD, Mainz.
British Museum.
100-125 AD, River Tyne.
Personifications of the four seasons decorate each corner. A central eagle clutches an olive branch, flanked by military standards, the god Mars and a bull.
It is tagged with the owner's name and unit, 'Junius Dubitatus of Julius Magnus' century, legio VIII Augusta,'
British Museum.
1-50 AD, Saint-Remy-de-Provence.
Lyon Museum.
British Museum.
National Museum Scotland.
British Museum.
after 9 AD, Xanten.
He was a centurion of the first cohort of the Legio XVIII, who died during the Varian Disaster at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.
M(arco) Caelio T(iti) f(ilio) Lem(onia) Bon(onia) / [t(riario)] o(rdini) leg(ionis) XIIX ann(orum) LIII s(emissis) / [ce] cidit bello Variano ossa / [l](ibertorum) [i]nferre licebit P(ublius) Caelius T(iti) f(ilius) / Lem(onia) frater fecit // M(arcus) Caelius / M(arci) l( ibertus) / Privatus // M(arcus) Caelius / M(arci) l(ibertus) / Thiaminus
Bonn Landesmuseum
British Museum.
200-225 AD, Dura-Europos.
Only complete suriving Roman scutum.
Yale University Art Gallery.
British Museum.
British Museum.
200-225 AD, Dura-Europos.
Only complete suriving Roman scutum.
Yale University Art Gallery.
British Museum.
50-100 AD, Mainz.
He was a standard bearer of the Cohors VII Raetorum.
Genialis Clusiodi / F(ilius) Imag(inifer) ex Coh(orte) VII / Rae(torum) An(norum) XXXV Stip(endiorum) / XIII H(eres) P(osuit)
Mainz Landesmuseum.
British Museum.
British Museum.
British Museum.
125-140 AD.
Great North Museum.
British Museum.
100-200 AD, Newstead Fort and Niedermormter.
National Museum Scotland and Bonn Landesmuseum.
British Museum.