Altar dedicated to the Nymphs created by Denisa Murzea MAPPOLA Database This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. MPL00052 155721 https://db.mappola.eu/r/Inscription/show/52 Lost altar sandstone complete 27.9 76.2 None chiselled 0.0-0.0 Habitancum 101-300 Habitancum 55.1701 -2.17374 no

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 Greek Greek-Latin Latin Multilingual Ancient Greek written in Latin script Latin written in Greek script dedication / votive inscription

Fabius

Drawing by R. G. Collingwood, RIB
Somnio prae monitus miles hanc ponere ius sit Aram quae Fabio nup ta est Nym phis vene randis.

Forewarned in a dream, the soldier commanded to have this altar erected by her who is married to Fabius, to the venerable Nymphs.

Having been forewarned in a dream, a soldier ordered she who is married to Fabius to put up this altar to the venerable Nymphs.

RIB 01228 CLEBrit 00010 P. Kruschwitz, Poetry on the Advance: The Emergence and Formation of a Poetic Culture in Roman Britain, Greece & Rome 2 (2020), 186–187. P. Kruschwitz, Undying voices: the poetry of Roman Britain, Reading 2015, no.17. P. Faithfull, War and Peace. Military Lives and Identities in Latin Verse Inscriptions., Vienna 2024, 705. CIL 07, 00998 CLE 00263