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Roman funerary monument for a man named Gaius Gentius Valens. Made from dark grey limestone. The Latin inscription is complete and is enclosed within double lines, with letters of better form and more carefully cut than usual, though the last lines are cramped, making letters E, T, and I almost indistinguishable.
A copy of a Roman tombstone found in Chester (Deva Victrix) depicting Caecilius Avitus, an optio in the Legio XX Valeria Victrix. The Latin inscriptions on such tombstones can provide details on several aspects of life in the Roman army including:
This inscription is traditionally known as the "Laudatio Turiae," "The Praise of Turia," [3] [4] because its subject was generally identified with Curia, the wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, consul in 19 BC, [5] [6] on the basis of comparison with the histories of Valerius Maximus (6, 7, 2) and Appian (Bell.civ. 4, 44), which report that Turia saved her husband in much the same way ...
This not only gives an exact date of Dexileos’s lifespan but also describes his death in battle at Corinth. The entire stele relief scene is bordered on top with a pediment adorned with acroteria, which gives it a religious aspect with reference to naiskos, a small temple in the classical order. [4] Dexileos Stele with inscription (drawing)
The Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) is a comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions. It forms an authoritative source for documenting the surviving epigraphy of classical antiquity. Public and personal inscriptions throw light on all aspects of Roman life and history. The Corpus continues to be updated in new editions and ...
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[2] [3] Euripides' phrase "underwent all kinds of variations", [4] [n 1] especially in Latin poets like Propertius, Ovid, Martial, and Persius; [9] [5] [10] [11] [12] although some minor variants like Sit Ei Terra Levis – abbreviated to SETL – are attested, [13] and excluding Roman Africa which developed its own stock formula (Ossa Tibi ...
Latin inscriptions are the most numerous. In the East, Greek was commonly employed, interesting dialects being occasionally found, as in the Christian inscriptions from Nubia in southern Egypt that were deciphered in the 19th century. Special mention should also be made of the Coptic inscriptions. The text is very often shortened by means of ...