Some highlights of the museum

The RGM is simply too big to describe everything, and since we are interested principally in the Roman Army, I'll concentrate on the museum's holdings which deal with military matters. In this museum, at least, all interesting army bits are in stone: they consist of tombstones, altars, dedications and architectural decorations.

	Visible from the outside, and overlooking an enormous floor mosaic that was found in Cologne, is the partially reconstructed tomb of a veteran of Legio V Alaudae: Lucius Poblicius. Although he's depicted in civilian attire, the military connection is clear from both the inscription and the frieze of his tomb.
	On the frieze (right), shields, swords and some other pieces of equipment are depicted. Lucius Poblicius the veteran was obviously quite wealthy, because his tomb is much larger (more than 14 meters high and over 4 meters wide, as you can see from the two photos at left) than nearly all others discovered for other legionary veterans.