Roman Inscriptions of Britain

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RIB 1261

RIB 1263

RIB 1262. Altar dedicated to Genius of our Lord and of the standards of the First Cohortof Vardulli and of the Unit of Scouts of Bremenium

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Support

Type of object: Altar
Material: Buff sandstone
Dimensions: W 0.559 × H 0.432 m
Decoration and iconography: With plain sides.
Condition: Thefocus has been dressed off and the back cut down.
Site: High Rochester (Bremenium)
Find context: In the strong-room of the Headquarters Building at High Rochester fort.
Find date: 1852
Other events: Formerly in Alnwick Castle. Transferred to the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastleupon Tyne.
Modern location: Now (2009) in the Great North Museum: Hancock.
Institution/acc. #: Great North Museum: Hancock:NEWMA : 1958.15.N

Text field

Style of lettering: In capital letters.
Letter heights: (not specified)

Text

Origin of text: High Rochester
Ancient site: Bremenium
Text type: Religious dedication, Imperial dedication
Date: a.d. 238-41
Dating criteria: prosopography

Edition

G(enio) d(omini) n(ostri) et
Signorum
coh(ortis) I Vardul[l(orum)]
et n(umeri) Explora-
tor(um) Brem(eniensium) Gor(diani)
Egnat(ius) Lucili-
anus leg(atus) Aug(usti)pr(o)pr(aetore)
curante Cassio
Sabinianotrib(uno)

❦G❦D❦N❦ET
‣SIGNORVM
COHIVARDVL[.]
ETNEXPLORA
TOR‣BREM‣GOR
EGNATLVCILI
ANVS‣LEGAVGP͡RP͡R
CVRANTECASSIO
SABINIANOT͡RI͡B

Apparatus

3. Vardvl[l], Bruce, Hueb., R.G.C.;Vardvl, Richm. 5. Cor(nelivs), BruceArch. Inst.;gor(dianorvm), McCaul, Hueb., Bruce, Domaszewski;gor(diani), on the analogy ofRIB 583 Richm. 7. avg͡g, Hueb., R.G.C.; the mason in error had begun to cut a smallg inside the first one;avg, Bruce, Richm.

Translation

To the Genius of our Lord and of the standards of the First Cohort of Vardulli and of the Unit of Scouts of Bremenium, styled Gordianus, Egnatius Lucilianus, emperor’s propraetorian legate, (set this up) under the charge of Cassius Sabinianus, tribune.

Commentary and notes

For Egnatius Lucilianus seeRIB 1091 (Lanchester). He governed Britannia Inferior just before, or just after, Maecilius Fuscus (RIB 1092, Lanchester) withina.d. 238-41 (Birley inAskewCoinage).