Made it up to the university library for the first time in quite a while (the deal on library cards for alumni is actually rather better than it used to be. if you can find someone on the desk who recognises a University Association card and knows what that entitles you to... but. wasn't really any harder to sort out than I was expecting).
One of the first ports of call: AE 2006 (which is to say, the most recent volume, published towards the end of last year).
Decent notice and summary of my own thesis publication (which was now as long ago as 2006). Glad they liked the 'imposante bibliographie' (and to discover that the adjective is as complimentary as it seems at first sight...).
AE 2006.864 is notice of the publication of the inscription from Aachen I blogged about February last year (and have amended slightly in that light). There is slightly more to the closing dedicatory formula, but I still think we're missing a verb to go with aedes. More to the point is the proposed identification with the centurion of legio I Minervia, Q. Iulius Flavus, previously attested at Bonn and Cologne (AE 1930.23; CIL XIII 8172). At the proposed late 2nd-early 3rd century date, the Twentieth should not have been anywhere in the vicinity and if Flavus had been serving previously on the Rhine then we either suppose that the dedication was set up after he had received news of the transfer, but before setting off (a solution offered for other 'alien' centurions) or perhaps accept that his family was established on the Rhine and that centurions might go on a long tour of duty without taking them along (whatever conclusions we might come to about the occupation/occupants of centurion's quarters: e.g. Hoffmann in Britannia 1995).
