Corinth Museum III – Funerary Stele
Roman funerary stele of the Roman officer C. Valerius Valens found in I970 in the area of ancient Corinth. A deeply carved and well executed relief of a Roman soldier represented in undress (wearing overcoat, tunica, cingulum; with a sword, a dagger, vitis (vine staff) and writing-tablet case is displayed in an architectural frame; two capped pillars support a gable with a rounded acroterion at the top. The gable is decorated with a shield in shallow relief.
The Latin inscription consists of three lines engraved across the whole width of the lower, and larger, face of the monument's entablature. The inscription reads:
C(aius) VALERIUS C(ai) F(ilius) QUIR(ina) VALENS CAM(unnus) | MIL(es) LEG(ionis) VIII AUG(ustae) (centuria) SENUC(onis), VIX(it) A[n(nos)] l XXXV, MIL(itavit) AN(nos) XIIII. HER(es) EX TESTAMENTO
Caius Valerius Valens lived 35 years and served for 13 years in VIII Augusta legion as “miles e centuria Senuci(onis)”. “VALENS” is one of the most common “cognomina” being found fairly frequently among soldiers in the Roman legions. According to the words QUIR CAM, Valerius belonged to the Quirina tribe, a relevant Alpine tribe located in the modern area of Valcamonica (Cammuni), in North Italy.
Valens is depicted on the relief with a sword (gladius) on his right side, a dagger on his left, holding a stick (vitis?) in his right, and a writing-tablet case(?) in his left hand. These would suggest a higher military grade, very probably a post of junior officer rank, than that of a “miles e centuria Senuci(onis)”, as he is in fact described.
Source: M. Šašel Kos, A Latin Epitaph of a Roman Legionary from Corinth
Marble bas-relief
height 2 ,I7 m; width, o 64 m; thickness, 0.45 m
Second half 1st century AD
Corinth, Archaeological Museum
Corinth Museum III – Funerary Stele
Roman funerary stele of the Roman officer C. Valerius Valens found in I970 in the area of ancient Corinth. A deeply carved and well executed relief of a Roman soldier represented in undress (wearing overcoat, tunica, cingulum; with a sword, a dagger, vitis (vine staff) and writing-tablet case is displayed in an architectural frame; two capped pillars support a gable with a rounded acroterion at the top. The gable is decorated with a shield in shallow relief.
The Latin inscription consists of three lines engraved across the whole width of the lower, and larger, face of the monument's entablature. The inscription reads:
C(aius) VALERIUS C(ai) F(ilius) QUIR(ina) VALENS CAM(unnus) | MIL(es) LEG(ionis) VIII AUG(ustae) (centuria) SENUC(onis), VIX(it) A[n(nos)] l XXXV, MIL(itavit) AN(nos) XIIII. HER(es) EX TESTAMENTO
Caius Valerius Valens lived 35 years and served for 13 years in VIII Augusta legion as “miles e centuria Senuci(onis)”. “VALENS” is one of the most common “cognomina” being found fairly frequently among soldiers in the Roman legions. According to the words QUIR CAM, Valerius belonged to the Quirina tribe, a relevant Alpine tribe located in the modern area of Valcamonica (Cammuni), in North Italy.
Valens is depicted on the relief with a sword (gladius) on his right side, a dagger on his left, holding a stick (vitis?) in his right, and a writing-tablet case(?) in his left hand. These would suggest a higher military grade, very probably a post of junior officer rank, than that of a “miles e centuria Senuci(onis)”, as he is in fact described.
Source: M. Šašel Kos, A Latin Epitaph of a Roman Legionary from Corinth
Marble bas-relief
height 2 ,I7 m; width, o 64 m; thickness, 0.45 m
Second half 1st century AD
Corinth, Archaeological Museum