The names of two individuals have recently been read in an inscription on a plumb-bob found in Co... more The names of two individuals have recently been read in an inscription on a plumb-bob found in Cologne: the commander of a centuria, and a mensor. Based on the name of the centurion, a Jewish origin was inferred for the mensor. This interpretation is untenable because, as far as currently known, Jews did not serve in the Roman army during the first three centuries. But a new reading reveals that in fact only one person is named in the inscription, a Maenius Leubo, who commanded the centuria which owned the plumb-bob. The cognomen of the centurion points to his Gallo-Germanic origin.
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