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Name: Marcus Iunius Sabinianus
Date: Flavian to Antonine
Now kept: Copy in the Museum für Antike Schiffahrt, Mainz (Germany)
Publications: B. Pferdehirt, Das Museum für Antike Schiffahrt I (Mainz 1995), 54
Findspot: Athens, Greece (Achaea), near the Church of Hagia Triada
References: CIL III 6109; InscrAtt 26; AE 1999, 1485
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Inscription

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Inscription: D(is) M(anibus)/
M(arcus) Iulius Sabinianus miles /
ex clas(se) Praetoriae Misene(n)sis /
(centuria) Antoni(i) Prisci vixit annis XXX /
militavit annis VIII natio(ne) Bes(s)us
Translation: To the gods of the dead.
Marcus Iulius Sabinianus, soldier of the Praetorian Fleet of Misenum, from the century of Antonius Priscus, lived 30 years, served 8 years; by birth he was a Bessus.

Comments

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Unit: Classis Praetoria Misenensis
Rank: Naval personnel
Now kept: Mainz
Style: Full length
Status: fair images - fair info
Last updated: Monday, 06 February 2012
Comments: The Bessi were a Thracian tribe, who made up a large part of the personnel of the Misenian fleet.
Photos © Jasper Oorthuys.
Transcription taken from Pferdehirt.

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