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Name: Caius Iulius Maternus
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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.196.
Findspot: Cologne, Germany (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium, Germania inferior)
References: CIL XIII 8267a-b; RSK 196
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Inscription: D(is) M(anibus) C(aius) Iul(ius) Maternus /
vet(eranus) ex leg(ione) I M(inervia) vi(v)us sibi /
et Mari(a)e Marcellinae /
co(n)i{i}ugi dulcissim(a)e /
[et] castissim(a)e obitae f(ecit) /
/
Translation: To the gods of the departed.
Caius Iulius Maternus, veteran formerly of Legio I Minervia made this while he was alive for himself and his very dear and chaste wife Maria Marcellina at her death.

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Unit: Legio I Minervia
Rank: Legionary infantryman
Now kept: Cologne
Style: Funerary banquet
Status: good images - insufficient info
Last updated: Monday, 06 February 2012
Comments: This tombstone was later reused. See the other side here.
Photos © Jasper Oorthuys.
Transcription taken from the site of Prof.M.Clauss.

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