10A Inscriptions in the Ure Museum Part 1

Question 1

What was the inscription for?

Answer 1

• A memorial for Domitia Rogata

Question 2

What does the Domitia Rogata inscription say?

Answer 2

• Domitia Rogata. 23 years old. Marcus Iulius Cethegus Phelyssam commissioned this for his dear wife

Question 3

Where is the Domitia Rogata inscription from?

Answer 3

• Roman North Africa

Question 4

When was the Domitia Rogata inscription inscribed?

Answer 4

In the middle of the second century

Question 5

What can we learn from the shaping and arrangement of the lettering?

Answer 5

• Seems to imply that the person who drafted the text and prepared it for cutting intentionally presented the Roman part of the inscription in larger text and the indigenous name in smaller lettering (shows that the indigenous part is more private)

Question 6

What is the object on which it is inscribed?

Answer 6

A grey limestone pedestal

Question 7

What can this inscription tell a historian of the Roman empire?

Answer 7

It reveals the way indigeneity was presented in the Roman Empire

Question 8

One of the words has been read in more than one way. What word is it?

Answer 8

• Phelyssam

Question 9

What arguments does Kruschwitz produce for reading it the way he thinks right? (2)

Answer 9

• Both the upper and lower part of the 3rd letter show what may have been interpreted as extended serifs, and there is a very short middle horizontal stroke which can be felt
• The word Phelyssam has also appeared in other places, whereas other interpretations of the word have not

Question 10

What does ‘(uac)’ correspond to on the stone? What does it mean?

Answer 10

• It corresponds to a space

- It means a space

Question 11

What do the round brackets in the article correspond to? What do they mean in descriptions of inscriptions?

Answer 11

• A space

- Round brackets are for noting something that isn’t explicitly written in order to help clarify

Question 12

What sorts of questions can you answer best from the stone itself? What sorts of questions are easier to answer from the article?

Answer 12

• One can answer questions about the stone’s appearance and condition from looking at the stone
• One can answer interpretive or contextual questions best by reading the article as other knowledge is needed in order to fully understand the inscription

Question 13

What sorts of questions can you answer best from the stone itself? What sorts of questions are easier to answer from the article?

Answer 13

• One can answer questions about the stone’s appearance and condition from looking at the stone
• One can answer interpretive or contextual questions best by reading the article as other knowledge is needed in order to fully understand the inscription