Centuria-jelzések aquincumi feliratos emlékeken
Centurial signs in Aquincum

Summary/Abstract: We have not known about the centurial signs of the Roman legions for all that long, and there are no stone inscriptions in Pannonia where they can be found. Among the instrumenta domestica inscriptions of Aquincum and its surroundings two occurrences have been identified. The first object (see fig. 1) is a bronze disc, found c. 1954 in Budapest–Albertfalva, which mentions the centuria hastata posterior. The other (see fig. 2) is a wall brick (later), which was found c. 1931 in Aquincum. The inscription was misinterpretated by J. Szilágyi, in 1950, concluding that it was about a freedwoman, with interesting (but by no means true) consequences on the nature of slavery in Pannonia. The correct reading refers to the centuria hastata posterior of a certain Iulius Apicius, and a factory controller named Claudius Dubitatus. The hastata posterior, being the lowest rank, was evidently in charge of the brick production.

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