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Title: A Knight from Naples in Rome
Subtitle: The Gravestone of Claudius Aurelianus Ptolemaeus
Author(s): SPEIDEL, M.P.
Journal: Ancient Society
Volume: 24    Date: 1993   
Pages: 99-101
DOI: 10.2143/AS.24.0.2005860

Abstract :
Many years ago a gravestone was found in Naples with a Greek epitaph for Claudia Antonina, “sweetest wife” of Ti. Claudius Quir(ina tribu) Aurelianus Ptolemaeus, tribune of legion VII Gemina in Spain. Ptolemaeus’ Greek name and the Greek language of the epitaph fit well with Naples, and he is likely to have been born there.

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