Natione Ponticus: Roman Navy Soldiers and the Black Sea
Journal: CeON Repository (Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science)
Year: 2019

A small number of Latin inscriptions on gravestones of Roman navy soldiers qualify the deceased as&#13;\nnatione Ponticus&#13;\n. Theodor Mommsen&#13;\n believed that such designations were part of an empire-wide paern that&#13;\nreveals feelings of ethnic belonging and disregards Roman administrative geography. Similarly, a recently published theory holds that soldiers chose the way in which they indicated their homes with regard to how they felt about their places of origin, and that therefor