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Altar dedicated to Brigantia
Description: Altar to Nympha Brigantia in honour of Caracalla and his divine house by M. Cocceius Nigrinus, [pr]oc(urator) Aug(usti) n(ostri), 'procurator of our Emperor', between 212-17. RIB 2066 (with Domus Divina).
Caracalla ruled as sole emperor a.d. 212-17.
Norah Jolliffe (Arch. J. xcviii (1941) 58) connected this text with the offerings for health ordered by Caracalla in a.d. 213. Birley (Cumb. Westm. AAST 2nd Ser. liii (1953) 61), with more probability, considers that this ‘was presumably dedicated in 212 as soon as the news had come to hand of the emperor’s escape from his brother Geta’.
The Rev. N. Cowpland wrote his letter from ‘Brampton Church’, now Brampton Old Church, which lay 1.6 km. west-north-west of Brampton. As he is giving additional details, he had clearly given the main details of the discovery in a previous letter.
Holland in his translation of Camden (p. 785) says ‘Neerer unto the wall beyond the river Irthinge was lately found this … altare’.
Current location: Now lost.
Date: a.d. 212-7
Translation: "This offering to the goddess-nymph Brigantia, which he had vowed for the welfare and safety of our Lord the Invincible Emperor Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and of his whole Divine House, Marcus Cocceius Nigrinus, procurator of our Emperor and most devoted to his divinity and majesty, gladly, willingly, and deservedly fulfilled."
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