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But we should mention a little Hercules-statue from the brickyard (CIL XIII 8610) that was donated to the legion by an imun(is). There’s a picture of it in Bonner Jahrb. CX Table V Fig. 8.
The provincial capital Colonia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne) is the most important site in Germania inferior for relicts of leg. XXX. There could be various reasons for the devotion of L. Aemilius Carus, leg(atus) Aug(usti) (that means of the Leg. XXX Ulpia after CIL VI 1333), to the god Jupiter (CIL XIII 8197). He must have commanded the legion in 138, since he was already the governor of Arabia in 142 (See note on prosopography) (AE 1909 nr. 236, compare CIL III 14149-1). His altar is the oldest monument of Leg. XXX Ulpia in Lower Germania, which we can date almost exactly. The names of centurions from the staff of the governor are named by inscriptions of Cologne (CIL XIII 8203) from the year 164: (centurio) leg. XXX Ulp(iae) curam agens stratorum et peditium singularium co(n)s(ularium); XIII 8201 from the year 211 (the restoration of a Dolichenus-sanctuary through the governor, carried out by a centurio of the thirtieth legion); XIII 8219 and 8233 (two consecrations to Matres Paternae and Mercurius, built by the same centurio), XIII 8291 (a tomb of a centurio from leg. XXX, erected by his brother – somewhere before the middle of the third century). The victimarius miles leg. XXX U. v. (XIII 8292) and the veteranus ex bf. cos. (8293 and probably 8294) also belonged to the officium of the governor. Pieces of two silver-plated bronze-plates with a list of names from soldiers of various Lower German squads (CIL XIII 8053) were presumably found in Bonn (Bonna), but it’s more likely that they belong to Cologne. That list was probably a register of squads, including three men of Leg. XXX (v.1.2.7), that were ordered to the officium of the governor. However there is no proof for a participation of Leg. XXX Ulpia at the construction work in Cologne, when you consider the bricks that were found at this place (compare Brambach: 436e. Bonner Jahrb. XCVIII 60. CXIV 318).
But it is certified that there was a vexillation of the thirtieth legion and some assistance for the building work in Bonn at the camp of its sister-legion of the province, Leg. I Minervia. The existence of a big square hewn stone (Lehner: Steindenkmal 1184) tells us by the inscription LEG I • ET XXX (CIL XIII 8078) that both legions worked together. Another inscription VEX L TR (CIL XIII 8082 a) on a square hewn stone, consisting of tuff from Brohl (Lehner: Steindenkmal 1185), also proves that. That was interpreted correctly at the first time by Lehner: Bonner Jahrb. CVII 220 as vex(illatio) l(egionis) tr(icesimae).
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