A #Roman funerary inscription dedicated to a former gladiator named Lycus ('wolf' 🐺), who impressed enough to be freed after just 4 combats, evidently surviving his time in the arena. His epitaph notes that, unusually, he fought left-handed #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

Where to begin? A row of teeny-weeny Roman altars surrounded by fragments of other ancient inscriptions on display in the museum at Chesters fort on Hadrian's Wall #EpigraphyTuesday

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Forum dedication with titles of Hadrian, from Wroxeter - 129-130AD. The town had friends in high places.

'holding tribunician power for the fourteenth time, consul three times, Father of the Fatherland, the Civitas of the Cornovii.'
#History #Archaeology

For #EpigraphyTuesday , a wood piece with the Greek word Καίσᾰρος engraved into it; the Greek predecessor of 'caesar'. Dated to the 1st century BCE to 3rd century CE. Provenance unknown, now the National Museum of Ireland in #Dublin .

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

#EpigraphyTuesday with this cast of a Roman tombstone found near Aldgate, London
it reads:
'In memory of Flavious Agricola, Soldier of the Sixth Legion 'The Victorious'
He lived 42 years 10 days
Albina Faustina set up this tombstone, to her incomparable husband'

For #EpigraphyTuesday , a collection of cylinder seals at the #Egyptian Museum in #Cairo .

A wonderful fragment in the pavement of San Clemente, Rome

The artist doesn't seem to have been a particular skilled mason

I have no idea as to the age or translation - can anyone help?

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Very excited to launch the website for my new project Tabulae Ceratae (TabCer) for #EpigraphyTuesday ! The project is taking a new, object-focused approach to Roman stylus tablets from the north-western provinces. ✍️ (1/3)
tabcer.wordpress.com

For #EpigraphyTuesday we're in the #CapitolineMuseums in #Rome , looking at an #inscription found near Porta Maggiore. Ti. Julius Xanthus was a tractator or masseur who really rubbed #Tiberius and #Claudius the right way.

#epigraphytuesday : Roman tile inscribed 'Clementinus made this flue-tile' in a rather fine cursive (everyday) script.

The level of literacy among tilemakers - and so perhaps the general population in #RomanBritain - seems surprisingly high. (See romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/instrumentum/2… for more)

The inscribed stone sarcophagus of the infant Simplicia Florentine who died at only 10 months, dedicated by her father Felicius Simplex of the Sixth Legion. 3rd-4th century CE. Roman Eboracum (York). On display Yorkshire Museum #TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday

For #EpigraphyTuesday and #TilesOnTuesday a 2000 year old joke - a good one! A #Roman tegula (roof tile) with an inscription in Roman cursive: VENTVRAM / TERRIS / VID(e) - Now that you see me, I've fallen to the ground.

From Vindobona/Vienna, on display at Römermuseum Vienna

Tombstone to Flavius Fuscinus, retired centurion, and his son, Flavius Romanus, a clerk, from Ambleside #Cumbria

The last line reads:

*in cas(tris) int(er)f(ectus) ab hosti(bus)*

*Killed in the fort by enemies* 😱

See:
romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/3…

#TombTuesday #EpigraphyTuesday

A #Roman bronze #tablet dedicated to the #Celtic healing deity Sirona by Claudius Marcianus, who gladly, willingly, and deservedly fulfilled his vow. Found in Hockenheim and on display in the Badisches Landesmuseum in #Karlsruhe , #Germany .

#epigraphytuesday #archaeology #latin

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The two inscriptions within Gustav III's Antikmuseum at the Swedish Royal Palace.

#epigraphytuesday dedicatory inscription South Theater #Jerash circa 90 CE, states that the councilor Titus Flavius Epe... son of Dionysius paid 3000 drachmas for the construction of a Kerkis (wedge shaped seating block) #Archaeology #Jordan more info here bit.ly/48wbiU5

I rarely have anything for #EpigraphyTuesday , but wonders never cease. Here is a golden ticket-an incantation to be spoken @ the gates of Hades to assert the dead cult member's purity, which might alleviate her suffering & upgrade their reincarnation. 4thC BCE. Can you read this?

'Fill your right hand with salt...' For #EpigraphyTuesday , a #Coptic magic prescription from the 6thCE, discovered in a monk's cell at the Monastery of St. Paulos (Deir el-Bakhît). Now at the #Egyptian Museum in #Cairo .

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First known mention of Roman Londoners - Londiniensium - on late 2nd/early 3rd C AD Turkish marble tablet of Tiberinius Celeranius a trader from Beauvais.
From important Tabard Square site in #Southwark excavated by PCA.
See it Museum of London 2026.

2nd century tombstone found near Arbeia fort, close to Hadrian’s Wall, dedicated to Regina of the Catuvellauni tribe, the freedwoman wife of Barates of Palmyra. The epitaph is written in Latin & beneath it a lament in Palmyrene Aramaic script. #EpigraphyTuesday
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