More Epigraphers on a Severan Date for the Castus Stone

As I get more opinions coming in, I will add them to this post...

The following scholars were asked if the PRAEFF and LEGG abbreviations in the L. Artorius Castus memorial inscription indicated that it was likely carved in the Severan period:

"Yes, that seems correct. The doubling of letters to indicate plurality (as later AUGGGG = 4 Augusti) perhaps first shows up in late 2nd c., but only fully takes form in the early 3rd. -- i.e. Severan."

John Bodel

W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics, Professor of History

https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jbodel

"Searching for LEGG in the EDCS gives only 15 results, which isn’t much of a sample, though there are a reasonable number of PRAEFF stones. It’s also worth checking the text of the EDCS entries carefully, as more of them can be dated than is encoded in the dating field. These do all look likely to be third century or later."

Dr. Hugh Elton, Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

Lady Eaton College, Trent University, 1600 Westbank Drive, Peterborough, ON, K9L 0G2, CANADA