Avec un peu de retard pour #EpigraphyTuesday
Plaque triangulaire en bronze avec une inscription en falisque (Santa Maria di Faleri, IVe s. av. J.-C., collection de la BNF, dépôt au Louvre). medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue...

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Stone inscription for Emperor Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus

From the #Roman fort at Gelligaer, south-east #Wales
103-111 A.D.

📸 My own.

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Inscription from the funerary monument of Lucius Vettenius Musa Campester once located on Rome’s Via Prenestina. It dates from early 1st C CE.

He seems rather grateful
to be dead. It is a ‘place of rest for those who are tired of life… tranquility welcomes him…’

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Lápida romana del siglo IV d. C. dedicada a Viatorino, un soldado que murió en combate mientras hacía campaña en territorio bárbaro. 📷 Marco Prins/Livius

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Lápida romana del siglo IV d. C. dedicada a Viatorino, un soldado que murió en combate mientras hacía campaña en territorio bárbaro.
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#EpigraphyTuesday with this altar dedicated to Fortuna by Gaius Valerius Longinus.

FORTVNAE / SACRVM C / VALERIVS / LONGINVS / TRIB

Found at the bath-house of Risingham Fort. On display with accompanying light projection at Great North Museum: Hancock.

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Latin inscription with a dedication to the gods and goddesses in accordance with the oracle of Apollo in Claros by the First Cohort of Tungrians at Housesteads on Hadrian's wall. Ten texts known from relate to the plague AD 165. #EpigraphyTuesday Credit: © Historic England/Great North Museum

Building stone of the Twentieth Legion which was found at Bearsden Roman Fort in East Dunbartonshire. The stone is part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland

#EpigraphyTuesday with this inscription from the Roman Agora in Athens

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Two wild green parakeets, or parrots, are here nibbling on grass on Rome's acropolis, the Capitoline hill. A small archaic settlement existed here even before the foundation of Rome, but by the birth of the Republic in 509 BCE the peaks of the hill were reserved for temples. Chief among these were the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the peak where the Capitoline Museums now stretch, and across the low declivity called Asylum atop the hill stood the temple of Juno Moneta, "she who warns". In late antiquity the temples were closed and that of Jupiter had its bronze-tiled roof stripped off. Bit by bit the temples fell, some in landslides down the hill, most pillaged for their marble. There were many churches on the Capitolio, as it was known in the Middle Ages, of which only the Aracoeli remains, and the villa of the Caffarelli family occupied much of the western part of the hill from the C16 on. Since Mussolini's demolitions, it has been a park, now full of green parakeets.

I cannot fathom the thought process that led me to post for #EpigraphyTuesday today. I will therefore post a #SpoliaSunday on Tuesday. Instead, I offer you two wild parakeets on the #Capitoline hill.

DEDICATION OF A SHRINE TO HERCULES, 1 JUNE 128 CE. OSPEDALE FATEBENEFRATELLI, ISOLA TIBERINA "Sacred to Hercules of the House of Augustus, from the collection of the warehousemen of the second larger cohort and Diadumenus, slave of our Caesar, and Titus Flavius Crescens and the Galban workers; under the care of Hermes, slave of Gaius Mundicius Helpistus. Dedicated on the Kalends of June [June 1st] in the consulship of Marcus Iunius Mettius Rufus and Quintus Pomponius Maternus [128 AD]." So it seems the workers in the Horrea Galbana, the huge warehouses of Galba near the river-port of Rome in today's Testaccio district, had a nice whip round to fund a sacred space, a shrine or altar, to Hercules. The workers, imperial freedmen and slaves, were divided into three "cohorts", not military ones, but possibly corresponding to the three courtyards of the Horrea. Hercules, the human who became a god, was a natural divinity to link to Hadrian, emperor at the time. He was also connected to mercantile activity and the emergence from the bonds of slavery, which would also help to explain the devotion of the warehouse-men.

A #dedication of a #shrine to #Hercules is the subject of this week's #EpigraphyTuesday. Made in elegant rustic capitals, we can date it precisely to June 1, 128 CE. It's now on the wall of the fishpond cloister of the #Fatebenefratelli hospital on the #Tiber Island in #Rome. #AncientBluesky 🏺

FUNERARY ALTAR OF CLAUDIA PISTE, 90-110 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS This beautiful example of early imperial epigraphy begins as a conventional prayer to the departed shades, to Claudia Piste, wife of Primus, "best, holy, and dutiful, well-deserving". She and her husband were probably Greek citizens of the empire, and Primus must have been wealthy to afford this large marble altar. In fact there is a contemporary cinerary urn dedicated, in Greek, to one Claudia Piste, also in the VM, but we cannot know if it was the same woman. Primus might have hired a poet to write his lament for the death of his wife, or he might have written it himself. After the first five lines the script shrinks to fit each line, with difficulty, into the available space. The poem is a poignant lament addressed by Primus to the Fates, remonstrating with them on the brevity of Piste's life and expressing his despair over her loss. His grief for her death is artfully communicated using metre and language. It's written in dactylic hexameter, a metre used for epic poetry and an indicator of the solemn nature of the elegy, as well as a hint of high social status. She may have died in childbirth. "Nothing is as sad as losing all life without new life."

#EpigraphyTuesday returns us to the #VaticanMuseums to see a long #epitaph for one #Claudia Piste, written by her husband Primus sometime in the later C2 CE, a sad lament in fine professional #epigraphy. #AncientBluesky 🏺

Fragmento. Parque Arqueológico dé Segóbriga, Cuenca 🇪🇦 España. 📷 A. M.

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Fragmento.
Parque Arqueológico dé Segóbriga, Cuenca 🇪🇦 España.
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Funerary inscription to Crescentinus who lived for 18 years. The tombstone was set up by Vidaris (his father), and was found near Brougham Roman Fort (Brocavum), near Penrith in Cumbria. Now on display at Brougham Castle. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Brougham

An Etruscan inscription above an entrance to a tomb in Orvieto. An it reads: Mi Felchaesiaise : r/ClenaretSecharRasnal. #EpigraphyTuesday

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From the cemetery south of the River Usk

The #inscription records the gift of ground etc., probably for the use of a burial club. The donor was chief centurion, P (primus pilus), and the gift was made from his own resources. 'sine tralaticio ex arca publica'.

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INSCRIPTION ON STATUE BASE, 364 CE. ÆDES VESTÆ "Ob meritum castitatis, / pudicitiae adq(ue) in sacris / religionibusque / doctrinae mirabilis / C[[---]]e v(irgini) V(estali) max(imae). / Pontifices vv(iri) cc(larissimi) / promag(istro) Macrinio / Sossiano v(iro) c(larissimo) p(ontifice) m(aiore?)." This inscription has the somewhat shaky epigraphy of the late C4. It says "On account of her chastity, purity, and admirable knowledge in ritual and religion, to … chief Vestal Virgin. The members of the pontifical college, of clarissimus rank, under the acting leadership of Macrinius Sossianus, of clarissimus rank, higher priest, (set this up)." On the side the dedication date is given. This ancient order of priestesses, dating from before the foundation of Rome itself, had only 30 years left before the Christian emperor Theodosius ordered the sacred flame extinguished forever. The name of the Chief Vestal was probably erased because she converted to the new religion, a bitter betrayal.

Vestal, erased. Today's #EpigraphyTuesday takes us to the House of the #Vestals near the #Roman #Forum to find a late-antique #inscription from 364 CE that praises the virtues of the Chief Vestal, but her name has been carefully cut out. #AncientBluesky 🏺

A bronze plaque inscribed with a dedication to Feronia for #EpigraphyTuesday

Dating to the 2nd Century AD, this plaque was dedicated to her in fulfilment of a vow by Hedone, a Greek maid-servant of one Marcus Crassus.

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Ara con dedicatoria a Diana. Siglo II 🏛️ Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba 🇪🇦 España. 📷 A. M.

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Ara con dedicatoria a Diana.
Siglo II
🏛️ Museo Arqueológico de Córdoba 🇪🇦 España.
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1st century AD building stone inscribed with the name of the 20th Legion from Maryport Roman Fort in Cumbria. Part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain #Maryport

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This altar (one on the left) was dedicated to Aesculapius at Arbeia (South Scields) at Hadrian's Wall by Publius Viboleius. His name Viboleius seems to be a variant of Vibuleius, attested in CIL ix 1324 (Aeclanum), CIL x 4153, 4410 (Capua) and CIL xiv 3013 (ILS 5667) Praeneste. #EpigraphyTuesday

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Monument votif (« autel d’Angera ») d’époque claudienne (41-54 ap. J.-C.) avec une scène de sacrifice. Il est exposé au musée archéologique de Milan.

FRESCO INSCRIPTION OF THE INSULA SERTORIANA, 100-150 CE. VATICAN MUSEUMS In 1819 this written inscription in red paint was found on the wall of an ancient building 6 Roman palmi under the street, near the church of S. Eligio de' Ferrari in the Velabro. It says "I want this estate, the Insula Sertoriana, to belong to my daughter Aur[elia] Cyriaca" and goes on to describe it: "6 apartments upstairs and ten shops downstairs, and space under the stairs. [May she enjoy it] happily". The word "cinacula" ("cenacula") refers to apartments of the artisan class. The rent from this building would have given Aurelia Cyriaca a comfortable income but not a huge one. The term "Sertoriana" probably refers to the first builder of the insula. This text is written in clear and formal "rustic" text, with lovely flourishes like the descending L and the rising Y and T.

#EpigraphyTuesday this week offers us a painted #inscription now in the #VaticanMuseums, a property document bequeathing an apartment building, the #Insula Sertoriana, to the writer's daughter, Aurelia Cyriaca, c. 100-150 CE. The text is written in beautiful rustic capitals. #AncientBluesky 🏺

#EpigraphyTuesday from the Great North Museum: Hancock!

Here we have an altar dedicated by Litorius Pacatianus to Mithras. The spelling of the God's name suggests the worshipper was a Greek speaker.

RIB 1599 - romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/1599

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Estela funeraria piedra. C. 180 d. C. Originalmente erigida en un cementerio y posteriormente reutilizada como bloque de construcción en el Lidenhof de Zúrich, Suiza. (Landesmuseum, Zúrich)

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Estela funeraria piedra. C. 180 d. C.
Originalmente erigida en un cementerio y posteriormente reutilizada como bloque de construcción en el Lidenhof de Zúrich, Suiza. (Landesmuseum, Zúrich)
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