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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 ...
Age - Through the Latin 'ANNORUM', an age at death is often provided like in modern headstones. Of a sample of 531 tombstones from the Roman period [ 1 ] it was found that a trend exists whereby the age at death is rounded to the nearest five or ten, but this is not a uniform pattern.
Inscriptions in the Christian catacombs were usually in Latin or Greek, while in the Jewish catacombs they were written in either Greek or Hebrew. [65] The majority of them are religiously neutral, while some are only graphic imitations of epitaphs (dashes and letters) that serve no meaning but to continue the funerary theme in an anonymous and ...
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 ...
At the head of the grave was a tombstone that listed Brown's name, his years of life and the legend “Son of John Brown the Liberator.” There were no signs of fire damage. Miralles looked relieved.
The name Pantera is Greek, although it appears in Latin in the inscription. It was perhaps his last name, and means panther. [2] The names Tiberius Julius are acquired names and were probably given to him in recognition of serving in the Roman army as he obtained Roman citizenship on his honorable discharge from the Legion.
Previous coroners tried to search for where the tombstone belong, but gave up with searches that hit dead ends, Costello said. The headstone was first displayed at the coroner's office and then ...
The Tomb of the Scipios (Latin: sepulcrum Scipionum), [1] also called the hypogaeum Scipionum, was the common tomb of the patrician Scipio family during the Roman Republic for interments between the early 3rd century BC and the early 1st century AD. Then it was abandoned and within a few hundred years its location was lost.