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LOT 0684
Roman Roof Tile with Legion XIIIG Stamp
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
5 1/2 in. (345 grams, 14 cm).
Terracotta fragment with impressed stamp '[...] XIIIIG' for Legio XIV Gemina. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a Buckinghamshire, UK, collector established from the earlier 1960s.
FootnotesLegio XIV Gemina ("The Twinned Fourteenth Legion") was raised by Julius Caesar in 57 BC; its cognomen Gemina (Twinned) was added when it was merged with another legion after the Battle of Actium. It took part in the defeat of Boudicca in AD 61.
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