Merope Atlantis: Ancient Inscriptions

Marlis1 posted a photo:

this is probably the oldest Christian gravestone in Switzerland, it is made of red sandstone- and one of the few gravestones found for a woman. It is dated about 350 AD, and was found near Augst, the Roman Augusta Raurica.
# 1949.1505

www.augustaraurica.ch/e/menu/index.php

the inscription:
D(is) M(anibus) et memori(a)e ae/tern(a)e Eusstate/ coniugi dulci/sim(a)e qui visit/ann[os] LXV/Amatus/posuit

(Den Manen und dem ewigen Gedenken der Eustata.
För die vielgeliebte Gattin, welche 65 Jahre gelebt hat.
Amatus hat (den Stein) gesetzt.

Free translation:
For the 'Manen (Roman Death spirits) and the memory of Eustata. For the beloved wife, who lived 65 years. Amatus dedicated the stone.

In those early centuries, people apparently still held on to the old gods and spirits, while embracing the new Christian religion- .

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Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Fragments of a commemorative relief of a gladiator's victories, a contraretiarius against retiarii called Pantheriscus), 3rd c. AD, Museo Nazionale Romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Fighting scenes between gladiators (Scolasticus and Damascenus). The letter Θ indicates that Damascenus died in the fight., a contraretiarius against retiarii called Improbus), Museo Nazionale Romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Fragments of a commemorative relief of a gladiator's victories, a contraretiarius against retiarii called Improbus), 3rd c. AD, Museo Nazionale Romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Cups with inscriptions of electoral propaganda scratched on the inside for the elections of 63 BC. Right: Catiline, candidate for consul.
Left: Cato the Younger, candidate for tribune of the plebs.
Museo Nazionale Romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.
These cups, filled with food or drinks, were distributed in the streets to the people, and bore an inscription supporting the candidate to the election.

Cossue posted a photo:

Sepulcher of Fernan Perez de Andrade o Boo, knight and lord of Andrade, in the church of St. Francis in Betanzos, Galicia. He was favored by king Henry (Enrique) of Castile with many favors and concessions, as it is said that Ferdinand (Fernand) played and important roll on the dead of his rival and predecessor king Pedro. An scribe who translated into Galician the 'Roman de Troie' wrote on this knight: 'Let's you know that this Fernan Perez was son of Roi Freire d'Andrade, and believe me when I say that at the time that this book was written he was the best man that there was in Galicia, except maybe for the counts and the richmen. And you must know that he had 200 cavalrymen, fully armed. He was lord of Corunna and Betanzos and of Pontedeume...'

The inscription in Galician language, which runs all around the ledge of the sepulcher, says:

'Aqui:jaz:Fernan:Perez:d'Andrade:cava
leiro:que:fezo:este:moesteiro:anno:do:nascemento
do:noso:sen
nor:Ihesu:Xp:de:M:et:CCC:et:oyteenta:et:sete:anos'

= 'Here lies Fernan Perez d'Andrade, knight who built this monastery. Year of the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ of 1387 years.'

In the shield, the motto of the family (in Latin): 'Ave Maria Gracia Plena : Dominus'.

5telios posted a photo:

K is sitting in the middle of a bunch of spolia spread out in a courtyard on the Palatine. The Palatine was home to the villas of Caesar and later the palace of Augustus. Palace is linked etymologically to the word Palatine. Spring 2007, Nikkormat El with a 28mm nikkor.

Marlis1 posted a photo:

this is a copy of the inscription on the mausoleum of Munatius Plancus in Gaeta, . He was the founder of Augusta Raurica, Kaiseraugst in Switzerland. This is a copy at the museum in Augst.
Lucius Munatius Plancus was born in Tibur in 87BC and died in Gaeta in 15BC.

the life of Munatius Plancus:
209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:DAIp_jcmeUcJ:en.wikipedia.o...


209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:qAm5_EhjKYUJ:penelope.uchic...
the inscription- from the above website:

Lucius · MVNATIVS · Lucii · Filius · Lucii · Nepos · Lucii · PRONepos
PLANCVS · COnSul · CENSor · IMPerator · ITERum · VIIVIR
EPVLONum · TRIVMPhator · EX · RAETIS · AEDEM · SATVRNI
FECIT · DE · MANIBIS · AGRO · DIVISIT · IN · ITALIA
BENEVENTI · IN · GALLIA · COLONIAS · DEDVXIT
LVGDVNVM · ET · RAVRICAM
Translation:
Lucius Munatius Plancus, son of Lucius, grandson of Lucius, great-grandson of Lucius,
consul, censor, twice imperator, septemvir epulonum,
having triumphed over the Raetians,
built the temple of Saturn from the spoils;
parcelled out land in Italy at Beneventum;
and in Gaul, founded the colonies of Lugdunum and Raurica.

CILX.6087

Marlis1 posted a photo:

this dedication to the god Mercury was found in Augusta Raurica, one of the Roman city in Switzerland.
This is for a special interest group.
Augusta website:
www.augustaraurica.ch/e/menu/index.php



CIL13,05258=RISch-02,00203=AE 1894,0038

The inscription reads as follows:

[Mer]cur(io) / M(arcus) e[t Q(uintus) Sa]nuci Atti / Sanuc[i f]ili Quir(ina) Mes/sor et Maelo ex voto / quod [p]ater eorum / [su]sceperat

for Mercury-
Marcus Sanucius Messor and Quintus Sanucius Melo-
to fullfill a promise made by their father.

groenling posted a photo:

paintings from 1150 - 1175 ; "Majestas Domini" ; surface partly raised & gilt

groenling posted a photo:

paintings from 1150 - 1175 ; "Majestas Domini"

V and the Bats (are flying) posted a photo:

Jens Vermeersch posted a photo:

Ancona, Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Marche
Stele of Sesto Tizio Primo
Inscription:
Sex(tus) Titius, Sex(ti) l(iberti), Primis
Vlvir
Lucaniae Benignae
concubinae
Titiae chrieste libertae
Chloe delicium

CIL 11, 06176 (p 1398) = AE 1985, 00371
Found in Castelleone di Suasa, First century AD

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Praeneste fibula, Museo Nazionale Romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

The inscription is presumably the earliest surviving specimen of the Latin language, if it is not a forgery, thought from the 7th century BCE. ILS 8561.

MANIOS MED FHEFHAKED NVMASIOI "Manius fashioned me for Numerius". (Writed from right to left)

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Praeneste fibula, Museo Nazionale Romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

The inscription is presumably the earliest surviving specimen of the Latin language, if it is not a forgery, thought from the 7th century BCE. ILS 8561.

MANIOS MED FHEFHAKED NVMASIOI "Manius fashioned me for Numerius". (Writed from right to left)

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Slave collar, AD 4th-6th century, Museo nazionale romano nelle Terme di Diocleziano, Rome.

The inscription requests whoever should see the would-be runaway, on whose collar it was attached. to stop him and bring him back to his owner, Zoninus, with the promise of an money reward, that is a gold coin.

FVGI, TENE ME, CVM REVOCAVERIS M(EO) D(OMINO) ZONINO ACCIPIS SOLIDVM
(ILS 8731).
I have fled, hold me; when you bring me back to my master Zoninus you receive a solidus [gold coin].

Marlis1 posted a photo:

sorry I am having some upload issues-

this is a Roman gravestone that was used to rebuild the Suda- probably before a siege in the Middle Ages- ...it on its side and it is visible from the street- IF one walks past with open eyes,LOL. I have only just recently discovered it.
It is from the 2nd cent. AD. and it is a dedication by Porcia Eufrosina for her husband Aulus Caecilius Cubiclarus of Dertosa (the Roman name for Tortosa). (info museum)

the location of the gravestone:
www.flickr.com/photos/marialuisa/4278974885/in/set-720575...

ch-mjt posted a photo:

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peli01 posted a photo:

An inscription on one of the remaining walls. Can anyone translate?

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Bridge and Castel Sant'Angelo, ancient Mausoleum of Hadrian, Rome.

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Fasti consulares, Musei Capitolini, Rome.

Deposited in 1547 in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitoline Hill. Michaelangelo, who designed the complex of three palaces on the hill, also restored the tables of the Fasti.

Sebastià Giralt posted a photo:

Sappho. Bust inscribed Sappho of Eressos, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BC. Musei Capitolini, Rome.

~ Martin ~ posted a photo:

Hildesheim, Germany, Cathedral. Personification of one of the four streams of paradise, carrying a bronze baptismal font, 13th century.

bruno brunelli posted a photo:

Fred_T posted a photo:

A plaque in the House of Augustus in Herculaneum in Italy.

Nickmard posted a photo:

Not sure what this is? Anyone?

habbie posted a photo:

An inscription currently between the Curia and Basilica Aemelia but not in situ

groenling posted a photo:

nativity ;
it's interesting to compare these with the stalls at Ringsted www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157622027093725/

groenling posted a photo:

visit of the magi ;
it's interesting to compare these with the stalls at Ringsted www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157622027093725/

groenling posted a photo:

circumcision ;
it's interesting to compare these with the stalls at Ringsted www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157622027093725/

groenling posted a photo:

massacre of the holy innocents ;
it's interesting to compare these with the stalls at Ringsted www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157622027093725/

groenling posted a photo:

parable told by St. Luke 7, 40 :
Et respondens Jesus, dixit ad illum : Simon, habeo tibi aliquid dicere. At ille ait : Magister, dic. .... ;
it's interesting to compare these with the stalls at Ringsted www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157622027093725/

groenling posted a photo:

raising of Lazarus ;
it's interesting to compare these with the stalls at Ringsted www.flickr.com/photos/ana_sudani/sets/72157622027093725/

Winter Guest posted a photo:

Cagliari, Necropoli di San Saturnino

Winter Guest posted a photo:

Cagliari, Necropoli di San Saturnino

Winter Guest posted a photo:

Cagliari, Necropoli di San Saturnino

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sgparry posted a photo:

Under the twin towers, Abraham sits and holds two children in his arms, and is surrounded by pairs of figures: the Good Virgins, the martyrs, the prophets and the apostles. With the original colors, this must have been dazzling.