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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