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Monumental Roman inscription, found next to a Roman villa near Alt-Inden (D).
Sabi(na) was one of the heirs (H = heredes) of the deceased, who according to testament (T) had to have the funerary column erected, to which this inscription presumably belonged.

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Special K. For #EpigraphyTuesday, we look at two instances of the archaic K in the word EVOKATVS, normally EVOCATVS, recalled veterans who were "called out" of retirement to re-enlist, with many privileges for doing so. This one, Ingenuus, was a career soldier. #AncientBluesky 🏺

An altar dedicated to Jupiter from the Roman fort at Maryport in Cumbria which was set up by Marcus Maenius Agrippa, Tribune and Commander of the First Cohort of Spaniards. Now part of the collections at Senhouse Roman Museum in Maryport. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday

Found in Anatolia a Hittite text date circa 2000 BC.

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There's a Roman tombstone in that church (St George's Fordington) as well. Memorial to Carinus (RIB 188), who died aged 50.
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Statue base with a dedication to the spirit of the Emperor and the god Mercury which was discovered at Birrens Roman Fort (Blatobulgium) in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday

The ‘Jewel of Antiquity’ - a stone fragment from Balmuildy Roman Fort that names Urbicus as Governor of Britain, and in doing so identifies and dates the Antonine Wall. Part of the collections at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanScotland

#EpigraphyTuesday – Statue base honouring Publius Aelius Liberalis, a freedman of Hadrian whose remarkable career culminated in the post of procurator annonae Ostiensis, overseeing the grain supply at Ostia. CIL, XIV 2045.

Museo Nazionale Romano - Baths of Diocletian, Rome.

Fresh from this morning's press preview at the #Oppian Hill for #EpigraphyTuesday. This massive lead fistula supplied the Baths of #Trajan. The relief stamp THERM TRAIANI prevented illegal siphoning, while the scratched LXX denotes its enormous size or weight. #AncientBluesky 🏺

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IRT 33: Testamentary dedication to Septimius Severus by Caecilius

Five lines, highly fragmentary, which we just used as an example encoding to demonstrate #EpiDoc XML in the "Digitising the Bronze Age" workshop.

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Building stone of the Twentieth Legion, decorated with the warrior gods Mars and Hercules. Found at High Rochester Roman Fort (Bremenium) in Northumberland, the stone is now part of the collections a the Great North Museum (Hancock) in Newcastle. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday