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Therefore his position in leg. III Cyrenaica must have been earlier, probably in the time of Nero. The centurion L. Tanicius Verus from Vienna was in charge at Thebes. He visited the Memnon-columns in the period November until June in the year and left his mark on them (CIL III 34). In the quarries of Djebel et Taër at Teneh, the centurion T. Egnatius Tiberianus had material broken up in the second year of Domitian (= 82/ 83) in order to pave the roads of Alexandreia (Cagnat IGR I 1138). The centurion C. Iulius Magnus under praef. montis beren(icidis) L. Antistius Asiaticus, who probably was tribune of his legion at the same time, commanded a detachment of workers in the second half of the reign of Domitian (CIL III 13580). When the centurion Claudius Iulianus erected the monument Cagnat IGR I 1153 for Zeus Helios at Ptolemais Hermiu, remains a question. A mixed detachment from both Alexandrian legions fulfilled their service in the castle of Talmis during Traian: their soldiers honored the local god Mandulis in the year 104/ 5. A lonely tombstone for a soldier has been found outside the camp at Girgeh in Upper-Egypt.
On papyrusscrolls appear several belonging to the legion: 1 July of the year 42 a centurion “Σεβανδος Λιβύρσιος” (= Sebandos Libursios) (or = Libursius Servandus) (BGU III 802, Col. XII v.11, Col. XIV v.23f); in the third year of Nero a soldier whose legion is named “λεγ(ιών) τρίτη Κλαυδία” (= leg. III Claudia) by mistake (Bull. De l’Inst. égypt. 1896 p.122); a soldier T. Flavius Clemens in the year 77 “στρατιώτης λεγ. III” (=miles of leg. III) (Oxyr. Pap. II 376); and in the year 95 M. Sempronius Gemellus appears as the arranger of a sum of money for a “στρατιώτης λεγιώνος τρίτης Κυρηναιχη̃ς χεντυρίας Πομπωνίου Σεουήρον….”(= "miles of leg. III Cyrenaica of the century of Pomponius Severus") (Cat. Greek. Papyri Brit. Mus. II 203 nr. 142 v.4 and v.20).
The activity of leg. III Cyrenaica outside their province of Egypt is mentioned in our history and in monuments only sparsely. A centurion from the legion, Q. Cattus Libo Nepos, gave a number of weapons to the local god Vihansa at Tongern in Belgica for which he made an inscription (CIL XIII 3592). In this unusual case, the gentile name here is the same as the centurion Cattus of the same legion in the inscription at Koptos (CIL III 6627 Col. I v.4). Thus, such a donation of weapons must have taken place during the early empire, the reign of Tiberius or shortly thereafter. Also, it is probably not without meaning that an officer from the distant country of Egypt was sent to the Lower-Rhine in a military disposition. Is it possible that a vexillum of III Cyrenaica took part in the German-Brittan expedition of Caligula in the year 39/ 40?
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