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Description: | Roman tombstone of Regina, a freed slave who married a man called Barates from Palmyra in Syria. It has a rare bilingual inscription with a line of Aramaic underneath the Latin. This was the language spoken in Syria. Regina sits in a wicker chair wearing a type of gown that was fashionable in Britain but not worn at Rome. She holds her spinning in one hand, and opens the lid of a strongbox beside her chair (late second century, Arbeia Roman Fort). | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | beyond the North East archaeology living in the North East fashion home life other cultures men roman women military | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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