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This stone records a soldier’s family brought up in the shadow of the fortress. Tadius Exuperatus died while serving with a detachment of the legion on an expedition in Germany. His father too had probably been a serving soldier in his time. Found at Pil-bach, 1km to the west of the fortress, before 1849. D(is) M(anibus) / Tadia Vallaun[i]us vixit / ann(os) LXV et Tadius Exuper(a)tus / filius vixit ann(os) XXXVII defun(c)/tus expeditione Germanica / Tadia Exuperata filia / matri et fratri piiss(i)ma / secus tumulum / patris posuit ‘To the spirits of the departed; Tadia Vallaunius lived 65 years and Tadius Exuper(a)tus, her son, lived 37 years, having died on the German expedition; Tadia Exuperata, the devoted daughter, set this up to her mother and brother beside her father’s tomb.’