Aelius Silvanus
(0200) Text: D(is) M(anibus). | Ael(io) Silvano | Ɔ leg(ionis) II Adi(utricis) | domo Syria Palaestina Colon(iae) Ael(ia) Capitolina(e) | stip(endiorum) LXI qui vixit | an(nos) LXXXVI Ael(ia) Silvana | filia et heres patri | ca[r]issi(mo) per Ael(ium) Filoquir(um) | [monumentum] f(aciendum) c(uravit).
Translation: To the death gods. Aelius Silvanus, centurion of legio II Adiutrix, who is a native of Syria Palaestina, Colonia Aelia Capitolina, served 61 years, and lived for 86 years. Aelia Silvana, his daughter and heiress had this sepulchral monument made to her dearest father, by Aelius Filoquirus erected this monument.
Commentary: The extraordinarily long period of service locates him in Judaea before or during the Bar Kokhba War.
Provenience: Aquincum, Pannonia Inferior (Budapest, Hungary) 194-198 CE
Bibliography: Bálint Kuzsinszky, Aquincum: Ausgrabungen und Funde. Führer mit einer topografischen und geschichtlichen Einleitung (Budapest: Druck des Franklin-verein, 1934), no. 285; Alexander Scheiber, Jewish Inscriptions in Hungary: From the Third Century to 1686, Corpus Inscriptionum Hungariae Judaicarum 3 (Leiden: Brill, 1983), 67*.