War Losses and Worldview: Re-Viewing the Roman Funerary Altar at Adamclisi

摘要: This article examines the purpose and meaning of so-called Roman Funerary Altar from Adamclisi, Romania ( CIL III 14214). Although very little altar remains, severely fragmented inscription with which it was decorated confirms that once listed names abbreviated origins nearly four-thousand legionaries auxiliaries. Rather than concentrate on role as a memorial to war dead, this thoroughly inclusion demonstrates how decision include them ultimately led serving an illustration vast extent Empire.