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Potentially False Altar to Brigantia - Vindolanda
This is either a forgery or a genuine inscription mistakenly thought to be Roman, or is not an inscription.
Decoration and iconography: A rectangular focus, has been outlined but not finished.
Condition: Improvised from a building-stone which was not squared to shape.
Site: (unknown)
Find context: (not recorded)
Current location: Now in the Vindolanda Museum.
Translation: ‘The goddess Brigantia.’
Notes The letters of lines 1 and 2 are c. 25 mm in height, but those of 3 only c. 10 mm, so as to fit them into the die rather than postpone them until the base. D, the first letter, has been ‘pecked’, but the other letters are incised. This peculiarity is shared by (c), despite the two stones being geologically quite distinct. The inscription must also be condemned for its use of the nominative case, the clumsy insertion of line 3, the form BRIGANTA, and the impression it gives of being improvised. It may have been inspired by two altars now in Leeds City Museum, RIB 630 which resembles it and appears to begin with DEAE | BRIGA, and 628 which appears to be dedicated to BRIGANT|A.
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