Gravestone of Tadia Vallaunius

This stone records a soldier’s family brought up in the shadow of the fortress. Tadius Exuperatus died while serving with a detachment of the legion on an expedition in Germany. His father too had probably been a serving soldier in his time.

Found at Pil-bach, 1km to the west of the fortress, before 1849.

D(is) M(anibus)
Tadia Vallaun[i]us vixit
ann(os) LXV et Tadius Exuper(a)tus
filius vixit ann(os) XXXVII defun(c)/tus
expeditione Germanica
Tadia Exuperata filia
matri et fratri piiss(i)ma
secus tumulum
patris posuit

‘To the spirits of the departed; Tadia Vallaunius lived 65 years and Tadius Exuper(a)tus, her son, lived 37 years, having died on the German expedition; Tadia Exuperata, the devoted daughter, set this up to her mother and brother beside her father’s tomb.’


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