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Name: Gaius Iulius Severinus
Date: Second century AD
Now kept: Xántus János Múzeum (Lapidarium), Györ, Hungary
Publications: Arnold Schober, Die römischen Grabsteine von Noricum und Pannonien (Vienna 1923), p.62/63;
Eszter Szönyi, Vezetö a Györi múzeum római kori lapidáriumában (Guide to the Roman Stonework Finds in the Museum of Györ) (Györ 2003), p.102-104.
Findspot: Zalavár, Hungary (Pannonia superior)
References: CIL III 4148; RIU 293
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Inscription

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Inscription: C(aius) Iulius /
Severinus /
vet(eranus) leg(ionis) I Adiut(ricis) /
viv(us) fecit sibi et /
Straboniae Victo/
rinae coniugi pien/
(tis)simae annor(um) XXXX /
et C(aio) Ulpio Licinio /
amico optimo
Translation: Gaius Iulius Severinus, veteran of the legio I Adiutrix, set this up during his lifetime for himself and Strabonia Victorina, his most virtuous wife, (who died with) 40 years of age, and for Gaius Ulpius Licinius, his best friend.

Comments

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Unit: Legio I Adiutrix
Rank: Legionary infantryman
Now kept: Alexandria
Style: Other
Status: good images - fair info
Last updated: Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Comments: Photos © , transcription and translation Martin Wieland.
Above the inscription is a mythological scene: the punishment of Marsyas. Below is a soldier on a horse; the standing person at the right side is either another soldier (maybe Gaius Ulpius Licinius?) or a calo (groom) holding the soldiers' weapons.

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