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PHOTO TAL ROGOVSKY

MILITARY CEMETERY. Two cemeteries served the Roman outpost at Legio. In keeping with Roman funerary practice, most burials at Legio were cremations. In such cases, ashes were gathered into covered pots, deposited in a cave to the northwest of the camp. Bodies of some legionaries, however, were interred intact, likely reflecting the burial preferences of soldiers from different ethnic or cultural backgrounds. Among those buried at Legio was one Titus, whose epitaph on orange limestone (shown here) is elegantly inscribed with this dedication: “To the deified ancestral spirits. Titus Aurelius Apis, soldier of the Sixth Ironclad Legion, (is buried here).”