Original scientific paper
Mirko Bulat
Abstract
In autumn 1989. Sasa Radesic, then a student of 7th grade of the Primary school in Pakrac, found a Roman gravestone on the field of Marinko Vujkovic, in Novo Naselje near Pakrac. The gravestone was excavated together with the base and on 25th February 1990. it was transported into the Primary school in Pakrac, where it still is (Bojcic, T., 1990., Sokac-Stimac, D.,
1993., 11) (Pictures 1 and 2).
His brothers and heritors Exorat, quintus and Sur Casii raised the epitaph in ten lines for Casius Sextus, soldier of five hundred Moorish cohorts.
The position of the finding place is very interesting. It is situated at the entrance into Pakra valley, across the earlier finding place of the similar gravestone in
Brusnik in 1913. (Hoffiller, V., Saria, B., 1938., 273-274.) The author thinks that maybe a smaller squad of that unit was placed there, displaced from the camp at the Danube limes ( Lussonium? - Dunakomlod -Barkoczi 1964, no. 147/2) for the protection of important road Siscia - Mursa along which the weapons and equipment to Roman camps on the limes were transported (Bojanovski, I., 1982., 106-122; Bulat, M.,
1989., 36-38). The arrival of the above-mentioned and thousand Moorish unit into Pannonia, and the time of the above mentioned epitaph would be the end of the 2nd and the beginning of the 3rd century (Mocsy, A.,
1962., 623). All the questions will be answered only after further research.
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Publication date:
5.12.2001.
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