Ulla Rajala2d ago
The Iberian scripts are the Paleohispanic scripts used to represent the extinct Iberian language. They are unusual as they are semi-syllabic, alphabetic. The oldest Iberian inscriptions date to the 4th or the 5th century BC, and the latest to the end of the 1st century BC. #EpigraphyTuesday
Ulla RajalaMar 10
The Servandus curse tablet was found the Vine Street townhouse in Leicester. It records the theft of the loak of the slave called Servundus from the slave quarters. He curses in the name of a Celtic god Maglus. Now in the Jewry Wall Roman Experience. #EpigraphyTuesday
Ulla RajalaMar 3
This is a fragment of the Corinthian-style Olpe Chigi, found from Veii, Formello, from the cemetery area of Monte Aguzzo, from Tumulo Chigi, and dated to 650-640 BC. It has the personification of Aphrodite - as stated. Now in the Room 38 in Villa Giulia. #EpigraphyTuesday
Ulla RajalaFeb 24
An Etruscan terracotta cinerary urn from the 2nd century BC. The frieze depicts a man using a plow as a weapon. The type was produced extensively in Chiusi. It reads AULE : PETRUNI : ATH : CUTNALISA, this is of Aulus Petronius, son of Arnth Cutnalisa. Now in the Metropolitan Museum. #EpigraphyTuesday
Kent Navalesi ☕️Feb 17

For #TombTuesday and #EpigraphyTuesday, this remarkably legible 7th c. tombstone for a priest named Godegisel.
Landesmuseum Mainz, #Germany 🇩🇪

#glam #medievodons @medievodons #deutschland

Kevin WilbrahamFeb 17
A colourful reimagining of an early third century altar to the goddess Minerva. It was found at High Rochester Roman Fort (Bremenium), and set up by Flavius Severinus. Now part of the collections at the Great North Museum in Newcastle. 📸 My own. #EpigraphyTuesday #RomanBritain
Ulla RajalaFeb 17
A photo of the Etruscan inscription TLE 890. The text is read from right to left:
1. felsnas : la : leθes
2. svalce : avil CVI
3. murce : capue
4. tleχe : hanipaluscle
It is from the 2nd century BC, and was painted on the arch-wall in tomb at Villa Tarantola, Tarquinia. #EpigraphyTuesday
Kent Navalesi ☕️Feb 3

For #TombTuesday and #EpigraphyTuesday, a fragment of a funerary Lekythos (monument in the shape of an oil jar)
4th C. BCE
Art Institute of Chicago 🖼️

#AncientArt #MuseumArchive #glam #GreekRomanArt #greek #ancientgreek

Nina WillburgerFeb 3

For #EpigraphyTuesday a Roman infantry helmet (Weisenau type) with an owner’s inscription formed by punched dots on the neck guard: the helmet belonged to Lucius Lucretius Celer, legionary in the centuria of Gaius Mummius Lolianus of the legio I adiutrix.

Found near Mainz in the River Rhine. Dating 1st century AD.

On dislpay at Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

📷 me

#archaeology #romansarchaeology

Kevin WilbrahamFeb 3
A centurial stone recording the building work of the century of Antonius Aratus of the Sixth Cohort. The stone was found at Castlecary Roman Fort on the Antonine Wall; now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #EpigraphyTuesday