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Military tombstones are most commonly from the 1st and 2nd centuries AD; the pre-Marian army used soldiers for specific campaigning periods; such soldiers would return to civilian life after serving in Rome's conflicts. The longer terms of military service instituted in the late 1st century BC provide more numerous examples.
The tombstone is of a type typically used for Roman soldiers, depicting a horseman spearing a foe on the ground with an epitaph below stating the age and service of the deceased, his origins and who placed the tombstone. [2] According to the tombstone, Rufus Sita was a horseman of the Sixth Cohort of Thracians, who died aged 40 after 22 years ...
Nonetheless, tombstones and epitaphs dedicated to infants were common among freedmen. [94] Of the surviving collection of Roman tombstones, roughly 75 percent were made by and for freedmen and slaves. [95] Regardless of class, tombstones functioned as a symbol of rank and were chiefly popular among those of servile origin. [96]
Pages in category "Headstones" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... Roman military tombstones; S. Unknown Sailor; Scottish gravestones;
Ancient Roman tombs and cemeteries in Rome (3 C, ... Roman military tombstones; ... Tombstone; Turtleback tomb; U.
The ancient Roman empire began invading modern-day France in the second century B.C., according to Britannia. By 50 B.C., they took control of the region and named it Gaul. Rome’s control over ...
Triumph – a civil ceremony and religious rite of ancient Rome, held to publicly honour the military commander of a notably successful foreign war or campaign and to display the glories of Roman victory. Ovation – a less-honored form of the Roman triumph. Ovations were granted when war was not declared between enemies on the level of states ...
Tiberius Pantera's tombstone in Bad Kreuznach. Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera (/ p æ n ˈ t ɛr ə /; c. 22 BC – AD 40) was a Roman-Phoenician soldier born in Sidon, whose tombstone was found by railworkers in Bingerbrück, Germany, in 1859.