Inscription Database

Identification inscription from Aelia Capitolina? – Jerusalem? (Iudaea)

Canonical URI:
https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD002376 (Last Updates: 2004-09-30, Gräf)

Transcription Majuscle
L(e)g(io) X LG X
 
fr(etensis) fel(ix) FR FEL
Chronological Data:
51 AD – 220 AD
Literature:
  • AE 1985, 0831.
  • Y. Meshorer, IsrMusJ 3, 1984, 41-43; fig. 1-2 u. fig. 3-5 (Zeichnungen). - AE 1985.

    IIIF Manifest

    Find circumstances / present location

    province:
    country:
    Isreal
    ancient find spot:
    Aelia Capitolina?
    modern find spot:
    find spot:
    modern region:
    present location:
    Mus. Israel, Jerusalem

    Type of inscription / language

    type of inscription:
    identification inscription
    language:
    Latin

    Type of monument

    type of monument:
    instrumentum militare
    height:
    8 cm
    width:
    8 cm
    decoration:
    present

    Historical relevant data

    military:
    present

    Commentary

     
    Phalera. Stammt aus Kunsthandel (in Bethlehem). Y: Unklar, wann die Legion den Beinamen felix erhielt. Meshorer denkt an die Severerzeit, vielleicht auch infolge des Bar-Kokhba-Aufstandes.

    General Data

    HD-Nr:
    HD002376
    Work Status:
    provisional
    Last Update:
    2004-09-30 by Gräf
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