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Name: Gaius Ottiedius Attianus
Date: 3rd century.
Now kept: Museo Civico, Assisi
Publications: Claudio Franzoni, Habitus atque habitudo militis : monumenti funerari di militari nella Cisalpina romana (Roma 1987), p.107.
Findspot: Assisi, Italy (Assisium, Italia)
References: CIL XI 05385 (p 1388) = ERAssisi 00021
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Translation: To Gaius Ottiedius Attianus, soldier of the Cohors IX Praetoria, of the century of Naevius. He lived 20 years, 11 months and 18 days. [He served for] seven [months]. ...ius Victor ... set this up.
Inscription: C(aio) Ottiedio /
Attiano /
militi cohor(tis) IX /
praetor(iae) |(centuria) Naevi/
vixit annos XX /
menses XI dies XIIX /
[mil(itavit) mens(es?)] septem /
[3]ius Victor /
[3] fecit

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Unit: Cohors Praetoria
Rank: Guard infantryman
Now kept: Assisi
Style: Other
Status: good images - good info
Last updated: Tuesday, 07 February 2012
Comments: Dated to the 3rd century AD based on the exactness of his age, which came into vogue in that period.
Photos © Dan Diffendale & Luca Bonacina.
Transcription taken from the site of Prof. M. Clauss.

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