Phalerae

Those are beautiful! Man I can't wait until I can collect all this stuff

M. Caelius. I think he was a centurion and there is a memorial to him someplace in the UK, Bath I think. And of course there's the subject of Cicero's "Pro Caelio", but that'd be a different Caelius

M. Caelius. I think he was a centurion and there is a memorial to him someplace in the UK, Bath I think. And of course there's the subject of Cicero's "Pro Caelio", but that'd be a different Caelius

 

Well done! He was a Centurion killed in the Teuteborger disaster, this is his harness and decorations re-imagined.

Found it, its in Bononia and he died at Teuterberg.

 

M. Caelio T.f. Lem. Bon.

..]o leg XIIX. Ann LIII

...]cidit bello variano ossa

...]nferre licebit. P. Caelius T.f.

Lem. Bo. frater fecit

 

 

To Marcus Caelius of Bononia, son of Titus,

of the voting district Lemonia,

centurion of the 18th legion. At the age of 53

he fell in the Varian War. The tomb may be

disturbed to place his bones within.

His brother, Publius Caelius of Bononia, son of Titus,

of the voting district Lemonia, built this.

 

Evidently from the inscription his remains were not found

Apparently not. For those with the Osprey series on their booksheleves our subject is on the cover of the Legionary 58 BC AD 69