Military funerary inscription
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First century CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

[...], 2, pp. 50-51 and plate, whence [...] 1983.941; dicussed [...], 120-122, whence [...] 1985.843, whence [...] 000841.

Marcus Aemilius Marci filius Macer Turanicus iari mensor cohortis Hispanorum annorum XXXX aera XIIX frater [sic] hic posuit

Translation

Marcus Aemilius Macer Turanicus, son of Marcus, mensor of the the cohort of Spaniards, aged 40, having served 18 years. His brother placed him here.

Commentary

Line 3: Presumably the man's ethnic or town of origin.

Line 4: a possible explanation of the four letters at the beginning of the line is Tarr(aconensis).

Line 5: The cohort is usually identified with the Cohors II Hispanorum scutata Cyrenaica equitata, attested in Dacia Porolissensis in 159 (CIL XVI.110, available at EDH 005845); see discussion at C.552, and P.220; it was probably part of the Augustan garrison of Cyrene.

Line 8: The formula is unlikely to be later than middle first century CE and is a particular favourite with Spaniards.