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Name: Paulinus Aventinus
Date: 3rd C AD
Now kept: Capitoline museums (Italy)
Publications: M.P. Speidel, Die Denkmäler der Kaiserreiter. Equites Singulares Augusti. Beihefte der Bonner Jahrbücher 50 (Köln 1994), 558.
Findspot: Rome, Italy (Roma, Italia)
References: CIL VI 3280 (p 3385)
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Inscription

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Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) /
Paulinius Abenti/
nus eq(ues) s(ingularis) dd(ominorum) nn(ostrorum) /
vix(it) ann(os) XXXVII m(ilitavit) /
ann(os) XVIIII t(urma) Rufini /
n(atione) Ger(mano) H(eredes) Iul(ius) Severi/
nus b(eneficiarius) et Vettius Martinus sing(nifer) /
b(ene) m(erenti) f(aciendum) c(uraverunt)
Translation: To the gods of the dead.
Paulinus Aventinus, trooper of the Singulares Dominorum Nostrorum (=Singulares Augusti), lived 37 years, served 19 years, of the turma of Rufinus, originally from Germania. His heirs Iulius Severinus, beneficarius, and Vettius Martinus, signifer, had this set up for he was very worthy.

Comments

Item details
Unit: Equites Singulares
Rank: Guard cavalryman
Now kept: Rome
Style: Funerary banquet
Status: good images - fair info
Last updated: Tuesday, 06 January 2009
Comments: Aventinus instead of Abentinus: Speidel 306.
Photos © Jasper Oorthuys.
Transcription taken from the site of Prof.M.Clauss.

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