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COURTESY MATTHEW J. ADAMS

MULTICULTURAL MILITARY. Roman legions were diverse by design, recruiting and conscripting soldiers from every corner of Rome’s vast empire. At Legio, several finds reveal foreign traditions and local assimilation. A rare deposit of pig jawbones in the northwestern cemetery (shown here) points to an old Roman feasting ritual of lamentation and purification that featured pigs and a special type of sausage called silicernium, from which the funerary ritual took its name.