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Monumentum

Altar of Castlesteads

Horsley thought that, like some other inscriptions in the Naworth Collection, this altar also had come from Birdoswald.

The New Mithraeum

1 Nov 2023

Ara litteris evanidis. From Birdoswald.

CIL VII 831; MMM II No. 489.

D(eo) S(oli) / invicto / N(abarze?) pesm/cus Licinii / Ripanus praef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit).

There seem to be three praefericula upon the top of the capital which is very singular (Horsley).

EDCS 7900802

De[o] Soli / [Invi]cto / M[ith]r[a]e M[ar]/cus Liciniu[s] / Ripanus / praef(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit) [l(ibens) m(erito)]

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