NCL-7DD3F6: Roman lead sealing
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The ala is conventionally described as the obverse, but this sealing was made by pouring the metal into a matrix incised with the decurion's initials; the surface was then impressed with the ala sealing. A is open (unbarred) and separated from V by a medial point. E is ligatured to T. In cutting the decurion's initials retrograde, the mould-maker inadvertently inserted the medial points after the letters, so that they printed before them, not after. (Compare the reverse of 31.) Instead of three initials, the decurion (troop-commander) has only two, as also in RIB II.1, 2411.84 (Stanwix) and 88 (South Shields). Although conceivably he was not a Roman citizen, and this was his name and patronymic, it is more likely that, for want of space, only his nomen and cognomen were abbreviated; thus, explicitly, a decurion of the ala Vocontiorum in RIB II.1, 2411.90 (Leicester) is named as Fl(avius) Sim(ilis) d(ecurio) without praenomen.
This is the first sealing of the ala Hispanorum Vettonum, which is attested at Binchester (Vinovia), the next fort to the north from Piercebridge, by RIB 1028, 1035 and III, 3260; it was there in the late-second and third centuries, but its presence cannot be more closely dated. The three VNOV sealings (26-28) may also refer to Binchester.
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Ala Hispanorum VettonumDie Ala Hispanorum Vettonum [civium Romanorum] war eine römische Auxiliareinheit. Sie ist durch Militärdiplome und Inschriften belegt. In den Diplomen von 122 bis 178 wird sie als Ala Vettonum Hispanorum bezeichnet, in den meisten Inschriften als Ala Vettonum. .. weiterlesen