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Name:
Quintus Statius Rufinus
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); G.Sumner, Roman Military Clothing (1) 100BC - AD 200 (Oxford 2002)
Findspot:
Athens , Greece (Achaea), near the Church of Hagia Triada
References:
CIL III 556a; InscrAtt 10
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http://www.roma...wforum.php?f=46
Inscription
Item details
Translation:
To the spirits of the dead
Inscription:
D(is) M(anibus) /
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:
Reconstruction of this member of the Roman navy can be seen as plate G1 in Roman Military Clothing . He suggests the object in the soldier's left hand is a lantern. However, according to Mike Bishop, the figure is actually holding the standard book of wax writing tablets (you can even see the individual leaves in the detailed view), in common with many figural depictions of the period: it merely signifies clerical duties. I also suspect the sword carriage on the right indicates a date of Flavian to Antonine, rather than the 2nd-3rd century Pferdehirt suggests.
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