Context (References)
Lamborn, P.S. Haec Romanorum monumenta, a Roberto Cotton Baronetto in Angliae partibus boreis undique conquisita, et in villam suam de Cunnington in agro Huntingoniensi comportata, tandem anno 1750 in Collegium S. Trin: Cant: sumptibus suis transferenda curavit Iohannes Cotton de Stratton Baronettus. (See plate of inscriptions at Trinity College.)
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: Archaeology Gallery, freestanding outside case 41, from ?1984 - 2010.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Context (References)
Illustrated London News, 4719.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society Report, XVIII, pref. xxiii.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (Field collection)
'Altar, found in 1597 at Thick Hollins, now Bank Top, Greetland. Right side inscribed, left side now inaccessible.' (Collingwood and Wright 1965)
Event Date 1597
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Camden, W. (1600). Britannia, ed. 5, p. 613.
Event Date 1600
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Horsley, J. (1732). Britannia Romana.
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, vii 200.
Event Date 1863
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Haverfield. (1914-1915). Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, xxiii, p. 395.
Event Date 1914
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (References)
Crossley. (1916-1917). Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, xxiv, 102.
Event Date 1916
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. RIB 627.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Inscription)
Collingwood and Wright translation of inscription reads: 'To the goddess Victoria Brigantia and to the Deities of the two Emperors, Titus Aurelius Aurelianus gave and dedicated (this altar) for himself and his family, while he himself was master of sacred rites, in the third consulship of Antonius and the [second] of Geta.' See Collingwood and Wright for transcription.
Event Date 1965
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Description (Physical description)
Altar dedicated to Victoria Brigantia and the Deities of the two Emperors, by Titus Aurelius Aurelianus when master of the sacred rites. AD 205
Event Date 1970
Author: maa

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Context (Display)
Exhibition label from 1980s Clarke Gallery reads: 'Altar to Victoria Brigantia (the British tribe in Yorkshire) and the deified Emperors, dedicated by Titus Aurelius Antonius and his family while he was a local official in AD 205. He is likely to have been a Romanised Briton. Greetland, near Halifax, Yorkshire.'
Event Date 1984
Author: Imogen Gunn

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Context (CMS Context)
Ex Cotton Collection. Old exhibition label in archive
Event Date 27/10/1993
Author: maa

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Context (Display)
Exhibited: 'Gifts and Discoveries', Li Ka Shing Gallery, 25 May 2012 to 16 February 2013.
Event Date 25/5/2012
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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Description (Physical description)
Altar dedicated to Victoria Brigantia and the Deities of the two Emperors, by Titus Aurelius Aurelianus when master of the sacred rites. Rectangular pedestal and head, carved with arches. Inscription in between.
Event Date 12/4/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe