Category: Votive
Following Flora: AshLI on the trail of a little inscription that won’t stay put
Of the four hundred inscriptions studied by the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions team, none has proved more slippery than a little thanks-offering set up to Flora, the Roman goddess of fruit and flowers. AshLI has been following the trail of the…
(Re)visiting an old friend from Hadrian’s Wall – Podcast 2
Back in early September, AshLI challenged Twitter followers of @AshmoleanLatin to read a tiny bronze plaque in the Ashmolean Collection. By the end of the day, we were really getting somewhere: After some clever sleuthing from classics-lovers and amateur epigraphers,…
Getting rid of Geta – a scruffy inscription concealing a dark deed
How Roman Britons kept on the good side of a bad emperor In 1672, a Roman altar was found on the south bank of the River Tyne at South Shields. Measuring over a meter in height, it had images of…