CIL II, 881. Reburrus Tapori, un centurión auxiliar olvidado

Zusammenfassung

This article reviews inscription CIL II, 881, discovered in the former province of Lusitania and stating Reburrus Tapori f. as the centurio of an anonymous troop. Despite reluctance on the part of certain sectors of contemporary research to consider him one centurion, we believe that this figure held his position in an auxiliary cohort. An in-depth analysis of the inscription also reveals that Reburrus occupied such office in the I century AD and was attached to one of the auxiliary units that were recruited in the early days of the Empire and abandoned the Iberian Peninsula before the accession to power of the Flavian dynasty. This also proves wrong the hypothesis of certain author suggesting that he served as a member of one of the cohorts stationed in Hispania during the II and III centuries AD.