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Name: Marius Alexander
Date: Post 193 AD
Now kept: Terme di Diocleziano
Publications: M.P.Speidel, Die Denkmäler der Kaiserreiter. Equites singulares Augusti (Köln 1994), no. 524.
Findspot: Rome, Italy (Roma, Italia)
References: AE 1982, 76
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Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) Mario Ale/
xandro d(uplicario) eq(uitum) s(ingularium) /
Impp(eratorum) nn(ostrorum) t(urma) Vitalis /
n(atione) Sur(us). Vix(it) an(nos) XL /
m(ilitavit) an(nos) XXVI h(eredes) Aur(elius) /
Berulus et Iu/
lius Mar(---) b(ene) m(erenti) f(ecerunt)
Translation: To the gods of the dead
To Marius Alexander, duplicarius of the Equites Singulares of our Emperors, from the turma of Vitalis, of the Suran people. He lived 40 years, served 26 years. His heirs Aurelius Berulus and Iulius Mar--- made this for he was very worthy.

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Unit: Equites Singulares
Rank: Guard cavalryman
Now kept: Rome
Style: Other
Status: good images - good info
Last updated: Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Comments: Speidel points out that the emendation of d() to d(ecurioni) cannot be right as the trooper served under the decurion Vitalis. Moreover, a decurion owned three horses, while Alexander is depicted with two which makes him a duplicarius. Also noteworthy is the young age at enlistment, fourteen.
© Photos Dan Diffendale.
Transcription taken from Speidel.

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