Aurelius Barbas
(0347) Text: […mes] V di(es) XII et Aureliae Barb[arae …] | […]CV qu(a)e vixit an(nos) XXVI me(n)s(es) VIII dies […] | [Au]relius Barbas vet(eranus) Augg(ustanorum) nn(ostorum) X coh(or)t(is) pr(aetoriae) ce[n…] | […] karissi(mis) m(…) SB m(…) fecit.
Translation: Five months, twelve days and for Aurelia Barbara […] who lived twenty-six years, nine months and […] days […] Aurelius Barbas, veteran of the army of our emperors, prefect of the tenth cohort and centurion, made this tomb for his dearest, who well deserved it.
Commentary: Christian soldier
Provenience: Rome 200-300 CE
Bibliography: AE 1902.203; Henri Leclercq, “Militarisme,” in Dictionnaire d’archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie, ed. Fernand Cabrol and Henri Leclercq (Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1932), 11.1: no. 46; Ronald J. Sider, The Early Church on Killing: A Comprehensive Sourcebook on War, Abortion, and Capital Punishment (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2012), 147*.