LOT 1010 Large Roman Tile with Legionary Stamp
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1st century BC-1st century AD. A large rectangular ceramic tile with impressed manufacturer's stamp 'L V A[.]' for Legio V Alaudae, the 5th Legion [with] crested [helmets]. 8.2 kg, 42cm (16 1/2"). Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman since 2007; previously in an old German collection. The 5th Legion was raised in Gaul in 52 BC by Julius Caesar to fight the Gaulish armies under Vercingetorix. Its short career ended in 86 AD when it was wiped out at the Battle of Tapae in Domitian's Dacian War.
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