1. Private life
Relationship with the civilian population (Roman and subject)
Pater familias castrense peculium
Wills (testamentum) and exemptions from civilian rules
- drafting
- citizenship
- witnesses
- heirs
Relationships and ability to marry (ordinary ranks versus those with equestrian status)
Ban on marriage (imperial – Augustan?)
Ending of ban (197 CE – Septimius Severus)
Children and their legitimacy

2. Inscriptions from Enns (Lauriacum) re family life
(Following photos from the Museum Lauriacum taken by Wolfgang Sauber)

3. Gravestone featuring Roman soldier and family
(2nd/3rd century CE
Enns (Upper Austria ). Now in Museum Lauriacum

4. Funerary urn ( 3rd century ) for Pontia Pompeiana, daughter of the centurion G.Pontius Pompeianus
Also from Enns (Museum Lauriacum)

5. Enns ( Upper Austria ). Museum Lauriacum: Grave stone ( ca
Enns ( Upper Austria ). Museum Lauriacum: Grave stone ( ca. 100 AD ) of Privatius Silvester and his daughter Privatia Silvina.

6. Vindolanda letters

8. Birthday invitation from Claudia Severa to Lepidina in Vindolanda (Campbell 254)

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