Roman Empire IV

Information abut a person's origins was sometimes given on gravestones. When people offered an altar to gods they also often recorded their own origin. For example, this altar found in Maryport in Britain reads:

I(oui) O(ptimo) M(aximo)/coh(ors) I Hisp(anorum)/eq(uitata) cui praeest/L(ucius) Antistius L(uci) f(ilius)/Quirina (tribu) Lupus/Verianus praef(ectus)/domu Sic-/ca ex Africa

'To Jupiter, Best and Greatest, the First cohort of Spaniards, part-mounted, which is commanded by its prefect, Lucius Antistius Lupus Verianus, son of Lucius, of the Quirine voting-tribe from Sicca in Africa'