Cast of Funerary Monument of M. Caelius

after 9 AD, Xanten.

 

He was a centurion of the first cohort of the Legio XVIII, who died during the Varian Disaster at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD.

 

M(arco) Caelio T(iti) f(ilio) Lem(onia) Bon(onia) / [t(riario)] o(rdini) leg(ionis) XIIX ann(orum) LIII s(emissis) / [ce] cidit bello Variano ossa / [l](ibertorum) [i]nferre licebit P(ublius) Caelius T(iti) f(ilius) / Lem(onia) frater fecit // M(arcus) Caelius / M(arci) l( ibertus) / Privatus // M(arcus) Caelius / M(arci) l(ibertus) / Thiaminus

 

Now in Bonn Landesmuseum

 

Varusschlacht Museum and Park Kalkriese.

Done