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| Keywords: woodcut cumbria bowness inscription blackandwhite monochrome black and white Woodcut of a red sandstone altar built into a barn at Bowness House Farm (RIB 2057), Bowness-on-Solway. The inscription reads I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo) / pro salute d(ominorum) n(ostrorum) Galli / et Volusiani / Aug(ustorum) Sulpicius / Secundian / us trib(unus) coh(ortis) / [p]osuit: 'For Jupiter Best and Greatest, for the welfare of our Lords Gallus and Volusianus, emperors, cohort tribune Sulpicius Secundianus set this up.' The joint emperors (father and son) date this to between AD 251 and 253. Scanned from the 1921 8th edition of the Handbook to the Roman Wall. Handbook pp.367–8 Woodcut of a red sandstone altar built into a barn at Bowness House Farm (RIB 2057), Bowness-on-Solway. The inscription reads I(ovi) O(ptimo) M(aximo) / pro salute d(ominorum) n(ostrorum) Galli / et Volusiani / Aug(ustorum) Sulpicius / Secundian / us trib(unus) coh(ortis) / [p]osuit: 'For Jupiter Best and Greatest, for the welfare of our Lords Gallus and Volusianus, emperors, cohort tribune Sulpicius Secundianus set this up.' The joint emperors (father and son) date this to between AD 251 and 253. Scanned from the 1921 8th edition of the Handbook to the Roman Wall. Handbook pp.367–8 | ||||
