Context (CMS Context)
Ex Cotton Collection. Old exhibition label in archive.
Event Date 13/10/1993
Author: maa

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Description (Physical description)
Tombstone for a child, with inscription and carving of child.
Event Date 13/10/1993
Author: maa

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Camden, W. Britannia. 1607, ed. 6, 662.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Bainbrigg, R. British Museum MS. Cotton Julius F. VI f. 326 [309].
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Bruce, J.C. Lapidarium Septentrionale. 1870-5, 612.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. 1863. Vii, Inscriptiones Britanniae Latinae, ed. Aemilius Huener. Berline, 1873, vii 1017.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
Collingwood and Wright translation of inscription reads: 'To the spirits of the departed; Blescius Diovicus (set this up) to his own daughter; she lived one year and 21 days.' See Collingwood and Wright for transcription.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Collingwood, R.G. and Wright, R.P. The Roman Inscriptions of Britain. Vol 1: Inscriptions on Stone. Clarendon Press: 1965. Number 1254.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
Exhibition label for 1980s Clarke Gallery display reads: 'Tombstone of the one-year-old daughter of Blescius Diovicus, a soldier. Habitaneum (Risingham), Northumberland.'
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Northumberland County History. XV 140, no. 35.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle upon Tyne Natural History Transactions. 1831-1939, XC.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Horsley, J. Britannia Romana. 1732, 238.
Event Date 20/6/2011
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Conservation (Surface Clean)
CON.2016.2132 | Surface Clean
Event Date 18/1/2016
Author: rmw65

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Description (Physical description)
Tombstone, rectangular with a pointed top. Decorated with a figure (child?) and an inscription.
Event Date 7/12/2016
Author: maa

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Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Joy, J. May/June 2016. 'Hide and Seek: What Happened to Ancient Children?' British Archaeology, no. 148. pp. 42-47 (pictured)
Event Date 19/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
On display in 'Hide and Seek: Looking for Children in the Past', Li Ka Shing Gallery, MAA from 30 January 2016 to 29 January 2017.
Event Date 6/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Tombstone for a child, with a rough carving of a child and an inscription: 'To the spirits of the departed, Blesicus Diovicus (set this up) to his own daughter she lived one year and 21 days'.
Event Date 6/4/2016
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Tombstone with pointed upper panel containing a low relief carving of a child, below is a rectangular panel with the inscription: 'To the spirits of the departed, Blesicus Diovicus (set this up) to his own daughter, she lived one year and 21 days'.
Event Date 12/4/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe