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Name: Claudius Saturninus
Date: 2nd C AD
Now kept: Römisch-Germanisches Museum Cologne (Germany)
Publications: B. and H.Galsterer, Die römischen Steininschriften aus Köln Wissenschaftliche Kataloge des RÖmisch-Germanischen Museums Köln Band II (Cologne 1975), n.213.
Findspot: Cologne, Germany (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Germania inferior)
References: CIL XIII 8280; RSK 213
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Inscription

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Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) /
[C]laudio Saturnino/
[ve]t(erano) leg(ionis) I Primini/
[us?
Translation: To the gods of the dead
Claudius Saturninus, veteran of Legio I Priminius(?)

Comments

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Unit: Legio I Priminius?
Rank: Legionary infantryman
Now kept: Cologne
Style: Portrait
Status: good images - fair info
Last updated: Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Comments: Part of this tombstone broke of recently and has since been lost. The underlined parts of the transcription can be seen on old drawings of this more complete state. The Legio I Priminius is otherwise unknown.
Photos © Jasper Oorthuys.
Transcription taken from the site of Prof.M.Clauss.

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