Inscription Database

Votive inscription from Trimontium – Newstead (Britannia)

Canonical URI:
https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD028803 (Last Updates: 2020-03-03, Cowey)

Transcription Majuscle
Deo DEO
Apollini APOLLINI
L(ucius) Maximius L MAXIMIVS
Gaetulicus |(centurio) GAETVLICVS |
legionis LEGIONIS
Chronological Data:
142 AD – 158 AD
Literature:
  • EphEp 9, p. 618 n. 1233.
  • AE 1911, 0083.
  • J. Curle, A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort at Newstead (Glasgow 1911) 143; pl. 17. - AE 1911.
  • RIB 2120; Zeichnung.
  • L.J.F. Keppie - B.J. Arnold, Scotland, CSIR Great Britain 1, 4 (Oxford 1984) 17, Nr. 46; Pl. 15, 46.

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:
1910
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:
84 cm
width:
37 cm
depth:
31 cm
letter size:
3.5-3.5 cm
decoration:
present

Historical relevant data

religion:
names of pagan deities
military:
present

Commentary

 
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People

Person 1
Name:
L. Maximius Gaetulicus
Praenomen:
L.
Nomen:
Maximius
Cognomen:
Gaetulicus
gender:
male
Status:
military personnel

General Data

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