LOT 120 Roman Legionary Brick with 'Legio IIII Flavia Felix'...
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3rd-4th century A.D. A massive square terracotta brick with an impressed stamp reading 'LEG III [.I.]' F (?) Cf. Spasi? Duri?, D., ???? ???????????-The city of Viminacium, (in Serbian), Pozarevac, 2015, fig.25 p.23, fig. 5 p.149. 4 kg, 19.5 x 19.5 cm (7 5/8 x 7 5/8 in."). German art market before 2000. With a European gentleman living in the UK. Property of a Surrey gentleman. In its permanent base of Singidunum the construction activity of the Legio IIII Flavia Felix (Lucky Flavian Fourth Legion) is attested, still in the 3rd-4th centuries A.D., by the numerous bricks with stamps bearing the name of Legio IIII FF. A detachment of the legion operated in that period, in the same way, in the nearby Viminacium, also in Moesia Superior, main camp of the Legio VII Claudia Pia Fidelis.Condition Report: Fine condition.
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