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Identification

Reference as: MPL00790
Title Verse inscription from Birdoswald
Trismegistos-No. 156447

Object

Provenance and Location

Find Place Birdoswald
Find Context On the rock surface of the quarry in Lodge Crag
Latitude 54.9895
Longitude -2.60242
Current Location Lost
Inventory number
Current Location Details unknown/ lost
Vicinity

Object Details

Object Type rock inscription
Material sandstone
State of Preservation complete
Dimensions

width: unknown

height: unknown

depth: unknown

Letter Size in cm (min) 0.0
Letter Size in cm (max) 0.0
Execution Technique graffito
Religion

Decoration

Decoration and Iconography
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Verse Layouts

Text

Function literary quotation
Language(s)
  • Latin
Verse Type(s)
  • Dactylic hexameter
Rhythmisation Quantitative scheme

Inscription & Translations

AVREAPERCAELVMVOLITATVICTORIAPENNIS
Aurea per caelum volitat Victoria pennis.

Aurea per caelum volitat Victoria pennis.
Apparatus

Main Translation

Translation Golden Victory flutters through the sky with her wings.
Citation P. Kruschwitz: Undying voices. The poetry of Roman Britain, Reading 2015.

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Comment

Squeeze

Have Squeeze? no

Dating

Date (From) 122 AD
Date (To) 300 AD
Date (Criteria)

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Editing History

Created 2024-10-30, by Anna-Marie Christely
Work Status Confirmed
Import Notice Imported from Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg at 2024-04-18T11:46:27, ID there: HD071103
Revisions
  1. by Unknown
    at 2024-04-18 11:46
  2. by Anna-Marie Christely
    at 2024-05-08 12:32
  3. by Anna-Marie Christely
    at 2024-05-08 12:33
  4. by Anna-Marie Christely
    at 2024-06-30 21:18
  5. by Anna-Marie Christely
    at 2024-07-01 01:19
  6. by Anna Pokorny
    at 2024-07-25 09:39
  7. by Chiara Cenati
    at 2024-10-30 16:45
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