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The sacrifice of a simple miles can been found in CIL III 7438. Apart from the tombstones referred to above CIL III 6232 and 7441, a tombstone from a veteran has been found in Novae (CIL III 756 add.p.993). CIL III 6233 = 7598 and 6234 probably belong to veterans as well, compare CIL IIIII 12366, a tombstone of an <i>ex centurione veterano</i>.
b) The other inscriptions found in the camp and its surroundings, either concern single centurions and principales in the service of the provincial governor, small detachments for guard or other public duties, or finally retired soldiers, partially settled in the area by official grant. There’s not a trace of the legion having stayed anywhere else in the province. It’s noteworthy that all known memorials are from Moesia Inferior only and are completely lacking in Moesia Superior, with the exception of a tilestamp found in Turn Severin (CIL III 8072), which possibly dates from the Dacian wars of Domitian or Trajan. Another exception is the tombstone of a veteran who settled in Scupi (CIL III 8198). The statement that the legion was garrisoned in Moesia Inferior from when the province was founded in 86 CE, is confirmed by the lack of evidence in Moesia Superior.
Apart from former centurions of the legion (CIL III 6192 and 12411) and an active service one who set up a tombstone to his parents in Oescus (CIL III 7428), we find a number of single centurions who were certainly on the staff of the provincial governor. Among them were two <i>centuriones frumentarii</i> in CIL III 7420 (in Lom) and 12371 (in Kutlovica) as is CIL III 6176 (in Troesmis in 173 CE); CIL III 778 = 7514 (in Gerthina) and CIL III 12468 were probably on the staff. CIL III 12388 and 13720 are unsure in this respect. The following principales were on the staff of the governor: <i>beneficarius consularis</i> in III 12408 from Nedan, a <i>speculator</i> in III 13719 from Altimir. Several scattered tombstones of veterans of the legion (III 6144; 7555; 12354; 12409; 14207-40 = 12398; 14422) only point to the area of origin of the deceased. About the same goes for the single tomb- and dedicatory stones of soldiers deceased while still in service, as the legion recruited largely from its own province, like everywhere else from the middle Imperial period (see for instance CIL III 12394 from 215 and 12442 or Kalinka Ant. Denkmäler aus Bulgarien nr.412. See also the small fragment 12434). On the other hand, tombstones of veterans of the legion from Oescus (CIL III 12352 and 14491 from Celei on the left bank of the Danube) may be explained by the founding of this veteran Colony by Trajan. Veterans of the legions in Moesia Inferior were settled there (see column 1287), seemingly between or a short time after the Dacian wars.
In reality, the legion occupied several small outposts in the province in militarily important places with small units detached from the main base in Novae.
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