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[1825]
And there was also a rather big number of brick-stamps VEX TRI = vexillatio tricesimanorum (Brambach: 516 d. Bonner Jahrb. CVII 213 Fig. 5, compiled just there, p. 219f.), found only at the site of the camp in Bonn. Its explanation is fully confirmed by a stamp [VEX • L • TRIE] (Bonner Jahrb. CX 1903 page 172), that was found at the very same place. We cannot certify yet, when this vexillation of Leg. XXX at Bonn took place. The exact date of the construction work of both legions in the Netherlands – as we can see it on a square hewn stone (CIL XIII 8832 LEG T • M • P • F • ET LEG XXX V • V •) – is also unclear. That was probably happening in the second century, maybe at the end of it or during the second half.
There had to be two smaller units of the thirtieth legion in Remagen (Rigomagus) (CIL XIII 7789) and at the Upper Germanic border-station near the small river Vinxtbach (XIII 7732). Other traces of Leg. XXX Ulpia belong to: a centurio in Erkelenz (XIII 7896), a be(ene)f(icarius) co(n)s(ularis) from Bonn (XIII 7997) and maybe Pesch (Lehner, Steindenkmal 1439), two “signiferi” (XIII 8156 and 8719) in Merten und Nijmegen (Noviomagus), diverse veterans (XIII 8567, 8591, 8601 = Bonner Jahrb. CXVI 36. 8666) and also two other members of the legion, who couldn’t be identified (XIII 8703, 8723, 8730). Sites that contain bricks of the legion (compiled at: Steiner, Katalog der Xant. Altert. Mus. p. 62) were discovered particularly often in the Netherlands – especially in the northern part of the province Lower Germania –, but of course also in the provincial capital and its bridgehead Deutz (Divitia) (Bonner Jahrb. LXXXI 208).
Monuments of the four Rhine-legions that tell us something about vexillations at the garrison of the Tres Galliae - capital (see column 1314, 44ff.) name numerous members of Leg. XXX: those examples, besides the devotion of Fl(avius) Super scaenicus of the XXX U(lpia) V(ictrix) p(ia) f(idelis) from the year 207 (Dessau: 9493), concern almost entirely inscriptions from tombs: the tribunus militum Marius Martialis erected a monument for his wife (CIL CIII 1871) and there’s a centurio from the time of Severus Alexander (XIII 1890), some soldiers (XIII 1828. 1839. 1847. 1904. AE 1904 nr. 177) and veterans (XIII 1831. 1841. 1842. 1858. 1866. 1873. 1879. 1883. 1884. 1888. 1891. 1901). A veteran of the Leg. XXX Ulpia – buried in Cabillonum – was probably also connected to these vexillations in Lugudunum (III 2614). The circumstances of another member of our legion in Paris (Lutetia) should be different from that. But the gravestone (XIII 1196), an active soldier of leg. XXX has erected in Avaricium, could refer to the presence of a vexillation at this place. In the case of centurio Aurelius Tertinus there was probably a bellicose reason at the end of the third century – maybe a civil war – that let him go to Aquitania, where the Ausci lived (CIL XIII 442).
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