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This is not the actual altar.
Altar to The Goddess Brigantia - Brighouse
At Greetland near Feslei (Halifax) the historian Camden noted:
'Here was dug up a Votive Altar, as it seems, to the Tutelar God of the city of the Brigantes.
DVI DI BRIG On the other side,
ET NVM GG.
T. AVR AVRELIAN ANTONINO
VS DD RPO SE III. ET GET. COSS.
ET SVOS S. M. A. GS.
Location
Greetland, West Yorkshire (RIB 627):Description
An and the Divinities of the Emperors.Translation
"To the goddess Victoria Brigantia and to the Divinities 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 Antoninus and the [second] of Geta."
Dating
This inscription is dated to AD 208, based on the consular dates mentioned.Current Location
Now in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Cambridge (Brit. 2 (1971), 304).Source
ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS OF BRITAINSite Gallery
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