Aurunceius Felicessemus

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Aurunceius Felicessemus (his praenomen is not known) was a member of the Roman knighthood ( Eques ) living in the 3rd century AD .

A dedicatory inscription on an altar, which was found at Fanum Cocidi fort and which is dated to 201/300, shows that Felicessemus was a tribune . According to John Spaul , he was the tribune of the Cohors I Augusta Nerviana Germanorum , who at the time was stationed in the province of Britannia . The inscription also shows that he was previously an Evocatus .

Felicessemus dedicated the altar to the deity Cocidius .

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Individual evidence

  1. inscription ( RIB 988 ).
  2. John Spaul : Cohors² The evidence for and a short history of the auxiliary infantry units of the Imperial Roman Army , British Archaeological Reports 2000, BAR International Series (Book 841), ISBN 978-1-84171-046-4 , page 217 .