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Notes on the funerary epigraphy of soldiers from Roman Dacia

The current paper constitutes an overview on the funerary epigraphy of soldiers from Roman Dacia. Without trying to be a complete and exhaustive analysis of all possible aspects, it aims at collecting all epitaphs regarding military personnel and offering a general image of the realities they present.

A new inscription discovered in the Apulum legionary fortress

Acta Musei Napocensis, 55/I, 2018

A newly discovered inscription during the rescue excavations within the fortress of the XIII Gemina legion at Apulum is published here. The marble slab was probably set by the members of a religious collegium (or of a collegium veteranorum?) that contributed everyone with one hundred denarii to build something inside the fortress during the Severan period. Two of the contributors were former soldiers of the legion, while the third was somehow connected with the collegium fabrum of the municipium Septimium Apulense.

New inscriptions of soldiers of the Roman army

Gephyra 9, 2012, 86-91

The article presents three fragmentary inscriptions of Roman soldiers: no. 1 mentions an officer, probably a prefect of a cohort; no. 2 is the funerary inscription of a legionary tribune and no. 3 belongs to the grave of a soldier of legio II Parthica

Latin inscriptions from the legionary fortress of Apulum

Tyche Supplementband 16, 2024

The volume is composed of separate exhaustive studies devoted to a package of epigraphic monuments discovered in the legionary fortress of Apulum (Alba Iulia) in the last 20 years. Among them, the most spectacular are a series of altars and statue bases discovered in situ during archaeological research in the principia of the fortress, remarkable especially for their double value, historical and archaeological. Alongside these, other monuments discovered in the fortress also contribute, through their content, iconography and the context of their discovery, to the overall picture of the organization and military life in the most important military and urban centre of Dacia. Available for orders: https://shop.verlagholzhausen.at/collections/tyche-supplement/products/tyche-supplementband-16

Military history from square brackets: some revisited inscriptions from the city of Rome

Alfred von Domaszewski: latin epigraphy in the Roman Empire: acts of the colloquium held in Timişoara in December 14th–17th 2022 / edited by Sorin Nemeti and Călin Timoc. – Cluj-Napoca, 2024

In his paper, History from “square brackets” (1989), Ernst Badian criticizes the indiscriminate use by historians of unlikely reconstructions of lost portions of epigraphic texts. Sometimes, though, the text in square brackets is not given only exempli gratia and the possible restitutions are limited to a couple of options. In such cases, also the supplemented text can fully contribute to the historical research. In this paper some new readings are presented, all regarding the careers of soldiers in Rome, attested in fragmentary or lost inscriptions, most of them only superficially published. Nowadays, the improved knowledge of the Roman army, in respect of A. von Domaszewski’s standard work from 1908, allows us to supplement missing parts of the text. The new readings contribute to the reconstruction of the overall picture regarding the military presence in the city of Rome during the imperial time through the identification of military units or subunits, of the steps of single careers, and of the specific structure and functions of the monuments.