State of preservation:
good, only the inscribed field is dull, the letters in the lower rows invisible;
Dimensions:
77 x 45 x 25 cm, h (letters) = 4 - 4.5 cm;
Description:
the capital and the base have a simple profiling;
Inscription:
D (is) M (anibus) / P (ublius) Ael (ius) Claudia - / nus mil (es) n (umeri) P (almyrenorum) T (ibiscensium) /…. vix (it) an (nos) /…. S C… /…. A…. /… MP …… /… .. M… .. Translation: God of Mani, Publius Aelius Claudianus, soldier in (unit) numerus Palmyrenorum Tibiscensium… lived years
Place of discovery:
found in a secondary position falling outside the eastern wall of the great camp at Tibiscum;
Observations, dating:
second half of the second century AD;
Place of storage:
Banat National Museum Timisoara, inv. No .: IV 7487;
Bibliography and databases:
Doina Benea, Petru Bona, Tibiscum, Ed. Museion, Bucharest, 1994; Ovidiu Țentea, Ex Oriente Ad Danubium. The Syrian Units on the Danube Frontier of the Roman Empire, Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 2012, pp. 71-72; UEL 15053; HD 046523; EDCS-11200460
