RIB 3379. Centurial stone of Caledonius Secundus

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Type of object
Building stone
Material
Buff sandstone
Dimensions
0.43 × 0.23 × not recorded
Site
Hadrian’s Wall: Great Chesters to Carvoran sector
Find context
Found during consolidation at Walltown Crags (NY 674 663), fallen from the south face of the Wall 47.28 m west of turret 45a.
Find date
1959
Modern location
Now in the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Institution/acc. #
Great North Museum: Hancock: 1969.5

Text field

Style of lettering
(not specified)
Letter heights
(not specified)

Text

Origin of text
Hadrian’s Wall: Great Chesters to Carvoran sector
Text type
Centurial stone
Date
a.d. 43-410
Dating source
Provisional

Edition

coh(ortis) VI
(centuria) Caledo(ni)
Secundi

Translation

Of the Sixth Cohort the century of Caledonius Secundus (built this).

Commentary and notes

For the same cohort and century, see RIB 1679 and 1854 (the latter probably by the same hand). For the same centurion, see RIB 3385. The nomen is probably Umbrian, and a connection is likely with Caletonius Secundus, veter(anus) ex duplikar(io), of CIL iii 4411 (Carnuntum): see E. Birley 1939a, 234–5.

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