Ulla RajalaTwo engraved Etruscan bronze mirrors from the Etruscan exhibition in Antikmuseet in Aarhus. Often these mirrors had names of gods, goddesses and heros engraved. #EpigraphyTuesday
One of the oldest tombstones in the cemetery around the parish church of Loddington, Leicestershire. From 1720, marking delightfully a grave of a 4-year-old 🥲 #EpigraphyTuesday
Nina WillburgerAn inscribed golden ring found in the #Roman settlement at Aalen.
The ring belonged to a child, the inscription reads CRESCAS, which translates as “may you grow”.
A wish every parent still has for their kids today.
📷 Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg
An inscribed rooftile in the Aarhus Antikmuseet in their Etruscan exhibition. Names in Etruscan. #EpigraphyTuesday
More election inscriptions from Pompeii. These revealed at the excavations in 2018. The work of the "Great Pompeii Project" in the Regio V revealed electoral inscriptions from the lapillary layers, painted on stucco white with typical black and red Pompeian characters. #EpigraphyTuesday
The walls in Pompeii are frequently covered with inscriptions: these are electoral propaganda messages that urge the citizens to vote for candidates. They are written in red or in black and mostly in capital letters. There are around 3000 electoral inscriptions in Pompeii. #EpigraphyTuesday
Oscan inscription on limestone recording a quaestor's work on the Temple of Apollo, Pompeii, found in 1818. Dated to c. 150-100 BC. MANN inv. 2545 (Ve19). Epigraphic collection, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN), Naples, Italy. Photo: Dan Diffendale #EpigraphyTuesday
For #EpigraphyTuesday and #TilesOnTuesday I’m sharing a 2,000 year old joke from a Roman roof tile (tegula).
The cursive inscription reads: “VENTVRAM / TERRIS / VID(es me)” – “Now that you see me, I’ve fallen to the ground.”
From Vienna, on display at Römermuseum Vienna
📷 me
Louvre Br1726: Urphe (Orpheus) and Lunc (Lynceus?) in a cave (?). Etruscan mirror, bronze, 4th–3rd century BC. Now in the Louvre Museum in Paris. #EpigraphyTuesday
Latin inscription with a dedication to the gods and goddesses in accordance with the oracle of Apollo in Claros by the First Cohort of Tungrians at Housesteads on Hadrian's wall. Ten texts known from Empire relate to the plague AD 165. #EpigraphyTuesday Credit: © Historic England/Great North Museum
