A lady waiting in nowhere.One of the figures to emerge from Bremenium's past is Julia Lucilla. She is known from having commissioned a tombstone Tombstone, city (1990 pop. 1,220), Cochise co., SE Ariz.; inc. 1881. With its pleasant climate and legendary past, Tombstone is a well-known tourist attraction. The city became a national historic landmark in 1962. to her husband Rufinus, who was the fort commander. The stone is in Elsdon church. "It reads like a CV. She is obviously tremendously proud of him and lists all his army and civilian posts," says Lindsay Allason-Jones. Rufinus had been sub-curator of the Flaminian Way Flaminian Way (fləmĭn`ēən), one of the principal Roman roads, the greatest artery from Rome to Cisalpine Gaul. Construction was begun (220 B.C.) by Caius Flaminius. , which was a famous road through Rome, while Julia refers to herself as a senator's daughter. "So here we have a woman from the top echelons of Roman society," continues Lindsay. "Her husband is assigned to his position at High Rochester in Northumberland and there is not a soul of her status there. "She must have been a bit like the colonel's wife at a fort in Indian country in the Wild West. She must also have been bored out of her mind and wondering what she had let herself in for. "She is in enemy territory and the nearest other senator's daughter would probably have been in York." At the Fulling Mill a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials. See also: Fulling Museum in Durham, there are more clues to Julia's life. An altar was dedicated to Rufinus and Julia by Eutychus, who describes himself as their "freed man." This is a Greek name Greek given names can be derived from the Greco-Roman gods, or may have other meanings. Some may be derived from the New Testament and early Christian traditions. Some of the names are often, but not always, anglicised. . Lindsay says: "And it looks like he was the couple's slave and moved with them to High Rochester with his family. "The fort still feels a little remote even now and would have felt incredibly remote to Julia. "But she seems to have been so proud of her husband that she would probably have wanted to be with him wherever he went." |
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