Alan H's photos with the keyword: great north museum

D(IS) M(ANIBVS) FELICIO LIBERTI VIXIT ANNIS XX To the spirits of the departed and to Felicius, freed man. He lived for twenty years. Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

These are the original altars from the Mithraic Temple at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall. Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

These two altars were found in the River Tyne where the Roman bridge (Pons Aelius) crossed the river.Both are thinner than most altars because they came from a shrine on the bridge itself. One is dedicated to the river god Neptune and shows his trident, the other is to the sea god Oceanus and shows an anchor. Both altars were dedicated to the sixth legion. Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

Of local god, Atenociticus. Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

QMCCCAS stamped on the handle indicates its contents came from an estate in Southern Spain. Found in a turret on Hadrian's Wall. Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.

The Roman forts in Britain were usually built by the Legions. But evidence from an inscribed dedication slab on a granary building at Benwell (Condercum) states that the men of the British Navy built this. Roman marines were famed for their specialist engineering skills - which they brought to bear in Roman Newcastle for the Emperor Hadrian. The slab was thus: IMP CAES TRAIANO HADRIAN AVG A PLATORIO NEPOTE LEG AVG PR P VEXILLATO CLASSIS BRITAN Translation: For Imperator Caesar Trajanus Hadrianus Augustus, [under the administration of] Aulus Platorius Nepos the pro-praetorian legate of the emperor, a detachment of the British Fleet [made this]. Great North Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.