A Roman Soldier

[Viggen]

His name was Papas the Son of Cillis. He lived nearly 2,000 years ago, and it’s likely he would be mighty surprised at what James Russell has learned about his life.

 

Mr. Russell, an archaeologist and professor emeritus in the department of classics at the University of British Columbia, speaks about Papas as if he were an old friend. And, indeed, it must seem that way. The scholar has spent perhaps a decade tracing the life of the ancient Anatolian from information inscribed in Latin on a fragment of a bronze tablet, which was found in the rugged hills of Southern Turkey. Mr. Russell was given the fragment by farmers who uncovered it not far from his main archaeological site, the coastal Romano-Byzantine city of Anemurium.

 

full article at Telegram.com

[FLavius Valerius Constantinus]

I wish the article actually told me everything about the Papas life.