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Description: | Spirally fluted column shaft, a break edge at the bottom and with a dowel hole in the top. There are twenty flutes, upper border of the inscription panel at the top would have appeared on the column drum above, together probably with more of the inscription. The inscription reads: Ad horrea Sempron (ia) balneum vetus in quattuor…plumbi pond octo milia sescenta sexaginta duo et labella quattuor idem do(mi)nus pro se et suis. This may be translated: 'to the warehouse of Sempronius, to the old bath, in four (pipes) of lead weighing 8662 pounds and four basins, the same donor (gave this) for himself and his (family)'. The column was found on the SE side of the sanctuary and probably belonged to a fountain, erected by a donor who must have been named higher up the column, as having finance a water supply to the buildings mentioned. Letter dimensions: 17mm high, bottom line 11mm, 2mm deep Found in trench E on Giammiti's plan from wallis's catalogue. The second trench Savile excavated.
Accession number: NCM 1890-1355/606 | Subjects: | religion GREEK ROMAN building components | Temporal: | 1-200 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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