Open AccessGuarding the Eagle. Soldier membership in the First Cohort of the legion in a revisited inscription from Potaissa
Author(s) -
George Cupcea,
Muzeul Național de Istorie a Transilvaniei,
Radu Zăgreanu,
Complexul Muzeal Bistrița Năsăud
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
acta musei napocensis. i prehistory-ancient history-archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2734-4487
pISSN - 1454-1513
DOI - 10.54145/actamn.i.55.07
Subject(s) - clearance , eagle , reading (process) , history , cohort , ancient history , genealogy , law , medicine , political science , geology , paleontology , urology
The reading of the seventh line of the inscription on a funerary monument from Potaissa (CIL III 908) has not been cleared up to this moment. Taking into account the changes in the designation process of the legionary cohorts and centuriae in the 3rd century AD, we propose here a new reading of the abbreviated text. It seems therefore that the soldier, who set the funerary stone for his father and uncle, had served in the first cohort of the legion in the centuria headed by the primus pilus.