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Description: | inscription, inscribed, DEAE BRI
GANTIAE
SACRUM
CONGENN(I)C
US V(OTUM)
S(OLUIT) L(IBENS) M(ERITO)
Roman altar. It has an inscription on the front, a long-handled pan (patera) on one side and a small bird on the back. The fourth side has a jug which was used, with the pan, during sacrifices. The altar was set up by a man called Congennicus to the goddess Brigantia. As her name implies, she was a goddess of the Brigantes, the British tribe of northern England. It is not known if she was worshipped before the Romans came, or if she was created by them as a regional goddess (second or third century, Arbeia Roman Fort).
Material: stone | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.britisharchaeology.249777 | Go to resource |
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