11-01-2009, 11:30 PM
Quote:MeinPanzer:2aos5xp1 Wrote:... and the inscription doesn't indicate anything about who he is beyond that he is a Greek. So why is it being taken as the stele of a centurion?Do you have a copy of the inscription? (I was going by the Mansell Collection description -- it's the only place I've ever seen this stele.)
It's published in IGIV.897 and is in the stele database:
http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/component/ ... Itemid,94/
And it's clear that it simply reads TIMOKLE XAIRE - laconic even for a modest Greek funerary stele.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
