Context (Display)
Old exhibition label in archive

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Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (Related Documents)
British Museum MS. Harleian 473, printed in M.A. Richardson, 'Reprints', miscell. Vol. 7, p. 473 f. 15.
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Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Inscription)
Collingwood and Wright (1965) translation reads: 'To Jupiter, Best and Greatest, for the welfare of the Emperor Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus and for his wife Sabinia Furia Tranquillina and for their whole Divine House, the Cavalry Regiment, styled Augusta for valour, Gordiana, set this up, when commanded by Aemilius Crispinus, prefect of cavalry, born in the province of Africa from Tusdrus under the charge of Nonius Philippus, emperor's propraetorian legate, in the consulship of Atticus and Praetextatus.'
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Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Altar to Jupiter and to the welfare of the Emperor Gordian
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Author: maa

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Context (Field collection)
Altar found about 1550 at Old Carlisle. Later taken to Connington (Collingwood and Wright).
Event Date 1550
Author: maa

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Context (References)
Camden, W. Britannia. (1586), ed. 1, p. 454.
Event Date 1586
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Camden, W. Britannia. (1600), ed. 5., p. 698.
Event Date 1600
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Grunter, J. (1616). Inscriptionum Romanarum Corpus. Heidelberg. pp. 1006, 8.
Event Date 1616
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Gale, T. Antonini iter Britanniarum. Ed. R. Gale, 1709. Transcription xxx, 1717, p. 833.
Event Date 1709
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Horsley, J. Britannia Romana. (1732), p. 276.
Event Date 1732
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. (1863). Vii, Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae, ed. Aemilius Huener. Berline, 1873, p. 344.
Event Date 1863
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Bruce, J.C. 'Lapidarium Septentrionale'. 1870-5, p. 827.
Event Date 1870
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae. Ed. H. Dessau. 3 vols in 5 parts, 1892-1916, p. 502.
Event Date 1892
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Collingwood, R.G. (1928). Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, vol. xxviii, p. 115 no. 11.
Event Date 1928
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Birley. (1951). Transactions of Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society. vol. li, p. 17.
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P. (1965). The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Vol 1: Inscriptions on Stone. Clarendon Press. Number 897.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Altar to Jupiter and to the welfare of the Emperor Gordian. Rectangular pedestal and scrolled head with inscription between. The inscription reads: 'To Jupiter, Best and Greatest, for the welfare of the Emperor Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Felix Invictus Augustus and for his wife Sabinia Furia Tranquillina and for their whole Divine House, the Cavalry Regiment, styled Augusta for valour, Gordiana, set this up, when commanded by Aemilius Crispinus, prefect of cavalry, born in the province of Africa from Tusdrus under the charge of Nonius Philippus, emperor's propraetorian legate, in the consulship of Atticus and Praetextatus.'
Event Date 12/4/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe