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A centurion's name on a reused stone
Top image: Roman legionary headquarters (principia) at Novae, Bulgaria. Inset; Centurion’s Tombstone repurposed in a cist grave. Source: Kleo73/CC BY-SA 3.0 Inset; Marin Marinov, curator at the Historical Museum in Svishtov

A centurion's name on a reused stone

Novae, Lower Danube. 2nd to 3rd century. Greece and Rome. Known. Free

Known. The stone names the centurion Gaius Valerius Verecundus, of the First Italic Legion.

It was found at Novae, on the Lower Danube, about 4 kilometres from modern Svishtov. The graves date to the 2nd to 3rd century. Five burial places were found after a tree fell on private land. The centurion's plate was written in verse and had been built into a later stone grave. Another reused stone names a veteran of the same legion from Iconium, now Konya in Turkey. The graves had already been disturbed.

The page does not say what is still argued.

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