Inscription Database

Votive inscription from Trimontium – Newstead (Britannia)

Canonical URI:
https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD028800 (Last Updates: 2020-03-03, Cowey)

Transcription Majuscle
I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo) I O M
G(aius) Arrius G ARRIVS
Domitianus DOMITIANVS
|(centurio) leg(ionis) XX V(aleriae) v(ictricis) | LEG XX V V
v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito) V S L L M
Chronological Data:
142 AD – 158 AD
Literature:
  • EphEp 9, p. 618 n. 1235.
  • AE 1911, 0082.
  • J. Curle, A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort at Newstead (Glasgow 1911) 141-142, pl. 16. - AE 1911.
  • RIB 2123; Zeichnung.
  • L.J.F. Keppie - B.J. Arnold, Scotland, CSIR Great Britain 1, 4 (Oxford 1984) 17-18, Nr. 47; Pl. 16, 47.

    IIIF Manifest

    Find circumstances / present location

    province:
    country:
    United Kingdom
    ancient find spot:
    Trimontium
    modern find spot:
    Newstead
    find spot:
    modern region:
    Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale
    year of find:
    1905
    present location:
    Edinburgh, Nat. Mus. of Scotland

    Type of inscription / language

    type of inscription:
    votive inscription
    language:
    Latin

    Type of monument

    type of monument:
    altar
    material:
    Sandstein
    height:
    121 cm
    width:
    48 cm
    depth:
    40 cm
    letter size:
    6 cm

    Historical relevant data

    religion:
    names of pagan deities
    military:
    present

    People

    Person 1
    Name:
    G. Arrius Domitianus
    Praenomen:
    C.
    Nomen:
    Arrius
    Cognomen:
    Domitianus
    gender:
    male
    Status:
    military personnel

    General Data

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