The funerary inscription of Gaius Tarquitius

The funerary inscription of Gaius Tarquitius

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This article presents a fragmentary inscription HERBAMARE VEG BROTH of a Roman soldier named Gaius Tarquitius who served probably as an ordinary soldier or as a middle-ranking officer at best in what presumably was an auxiliary cohort.Perhaps of Bithynian extraction, Gaius Tarquitius or HERBATINT FF3 one of his forebears may have received Roman citizenship through the patronage of Marcus Tarquitius Priscus, proconsul of Bithynia et Pontus in the reign of Nero.