Britanno-Roman Inscriptions: With Critical NotesH. Rowsell, 1863 - 290 Seiten |
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AELIO altar ANTONINO AVG Antoninus Antoninus Pius appears Archæologia Archæological Augusti AVG PIO Banna Bremenium Brigantia Brit Britannia Bruce Caerleon Cæsar Caius Caledonia Caledonia Romana Camden Caracalla Celt centuria centurion century Claudius cognomen cohort Commodus conjecture decurio dedicated deity doubt Eburacum Elagabalus emperor epigraphy epithet equitum erected example expansion fecit filius following inscription found in Britain GALATIA Geta given goddess Gough Gruter Hadrian Henzen Hist Hodgson Horsley Horsley's IMP CAES improbable inscriptions found interpretation Julius LEG AVG legate legion letters MAPONO MAXIMO mentioned Monum Nemetona NERVA Nodens notes on inscriptions noticed Notitia observes opinion Orelli posuit PRAEEST PRAEF præfectus prænomen princeps probably proprætore reference regard remarks Risingham Roach Smith Roman Wall Saxon scil secunda seems Severus soldier standing stone found Stuart suggests tion TRIB tribu Tungri Tungrians VIXIT votum solvit whilst word Wright Wroxeter
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Seite 143 - Corbridye was the place." Horsley rejects this explanation, and proposes three other names, of which the word in the text may have been a corruption : Coritani, a people of one of the Provincice Ctesarienses ; Coriotiotar in the anonymous Ravennas : and Crotoniatce, which last he seems to have preferred. As to the explanation of the rest of the inscription, he adopts the view, that prcesentissimum numen Dei signifies the Emperor, and that manu intimates that Q. Calpurnius was advanced to his post...
Seite 65 - It was supposed that this was the deity of the country of the Brigantes, but I am not aware that this country was ever called Brigantia, and it is not probable that the conqueror would worship the deity of a vanquished tribe. I feel more inclined to suppose the name was taken from Brigantium, in Switzerland, a town which occupied the site of the modern Bregentz. An altar found at Chester was dedicated DEAE \VMPHAE BRIG, which in this case would be ' to the nymph goddess of Brigantium.
Seite 39 - LUTUDARUM, the name of a Roman station, next in order, according to Ravennas, to Derventio or Little Chester, and which is supposed to be Chesterfield, much of the difficulty will vanish. The first will then be found to have the name of the emperor Hadrian, connected...
Seite 241 - These alUirs of the adopted native deities are generally rude and inferior in design, as if indicative of their having their origin in the piety of some provincial legionary subaltern. In the obscure gods and goddesses, thus commemorated, we most probably recognise the names of favourite local divinities of the Romanised Britons, originating for the most part from the adoption into the tolerant Pantheon of Rome of the older objects of native superstitious reverence.
Seite 164 - That exudative and degenerative diseases of the nervous system, due to syphilis, are most liable to show themselves at the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth decade of life.
Seite 170 - HSE [hie] [situs] e[st]. . Mr. Scarth remarks that this inscription "may be thus rendered : — Caius Mannius Secundus,* son of Caius, of Pollentum, a soldier of the twentieth legion, aged 52 years ; having served 31 years in the legion and being the beneficiary of the principal legate.
Seite 158 - ... the Twentieth Legion (styled) V aliant and Victorious (who) lived fifty years. Hodgson's reading is — Caius Valerius Caius Voltinius Julius vixit annos &c. The palm branch, the type of victory, will be noticed in the triangular head of the stone, and at the commencement and close of the last line. The age of the soldier has been cut upon a nodule of ferruginous matter which has fallen out; there is not spa.ce for two letters so that there is little doubt that the inscription originally had...
Seite 211 - forte pro Cumba, locus subterraneus;" and he quotes a monkish writer, who employs the word as follows : — " Ad pedes B. Sabini est altare S. Martini ... in alia Cuba, juxta orientem, sepulchrum SS Victoris, Domnini," &c. — " Cuba " and " cupa " are therefore probably one word, of which " cupella " will have been the diminutive. Whether allied to " cumba " or not, I have very serious doubts. I suspect that " cupa," (the same word as " cup,") and its diminutive "cupella," originally meant a sepulchral...
Seite 157 - Maximus, * chief priest, possessed of the tribunitian power for the nineteenth time, of the imperial for the second time, the consular for the fourth time, the father of his country ; — The First Cohort of the Varduli, surnamed the faithful, composed of Roman citizens, a miliary cohort, with its due proportion of cavalry attached, and honoured with tho name of Antonine, erected this under the superintendence of an augustal legate and proprietor.
Seite 160 - Thomas James, Esq., Otterburn Castle. The third line is somewhat obscure, and the subsequent lines are nearly obliterated by the action of the weather. Mr. Thomas Hodgson has described this and the other altars found on the same occasion in the Arch. _551iana, vol. iv., p. 6.