Original scientific paper

Roman military stamps on tiles from Ljubuški

Radoslav Dodig ; Metković High School, Metković, Croatia

Abstract

In the territory of Ljubuški (Bigeste), twenty-one military
stamps were found on roof tiles (tegulae) from
Roman military workshops. Most of them belong to
the Cohors I Belgarum (10), Legio VIII Augusta (7), Legio
IIII Flavia felix (3) and Cohors VIII voluntariorum
civium Romanorum (1). Almost all of these stamps
were found at the Gračine site at Humac (20), some
incidentally, others during test excavations or during
archaeological excavations conducted from 1977 to
1980. Previously ten tegula stamps were known from
Ljubuški, while eleven are being published for the first
time. The stamps LEG VIII AVG may be tentatively
dated to around the year 69 AD, LEG IIII F F from
70 to 86 AD, COH I BELG to approximately 173 AD,
and COH VIII VOL to the third century AD. They
confirm that the Cohors I Belgarum and Cohors VIII
voluntariorum and probably vexillations (vexillatio)
of the Legio IV Flavia felix and the Legio VIII Augusta
were certainly stationed in the auxiliary military
camp at Gračine from the first to the third centuries.

Keywords

military stamps; tile; Ljubuški; COH I BELG; LEG VIII AVG; LEG IIII F F; COH VIII VOL; Gracine; camp

Hrčak ID:

26719

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26719

Publication date:

22.8.2008.

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