Dedication to Gordian
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source date: 238-244 CE
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Imperatori Caesari Marco Antonio Gordiano Pio Felici Augusto pontifici maximo tribunicia potestate ? cohors I Macedonica Gordiana equitata deuota numini maiestati que eius dedicante Caecilio Felice uiro egregio procuratore eius curante Drusinio Lupulo praefecto uice II cohortis eiusdem ex euokato

Translation

For Emperor Caesar Marcus Antonius Gordianus, Pious, Fortunate, high priest pontifex maximus, [holding tribunician power for the ?th time, the ?first] Macedonian Gordian mounted [cohort], devoted to his divinity and his majesty; the dedicator was Caecilius Felix, excellent man, his procurator; the overseer was Drusinius Lupulus, prefect on two occasions of the second cohort of the same, re-enlisted.

Commentary

Line 4: For this cohort see also C.183. For temporary cognomina of this type see G. Bersanetti, Athenaeum N.S. 18 (1940) 105f.

Line 6: on the chronology and significance of this formula, of which the earliest dated instance is of CE 210, see H. Gundel, Epigrafica XV (1953) 128f.

Line 8: Possibly a member of the family of or even identical with C. Caecilius Felix c. v., PIR2, C0045 .

Line 10: For two tours of duty cf. the beneficiarius iterata statione in ILS 9327.