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Key Information
- Title:
- The Brough Theatre Stone
- Object Name:
- plaque
- Date/Period:
- 139
- Location on Display:
- Hull and East Riding Museum - Roman Gallery
- Accession No:
- KINCM:2000.195.489
- Brief Description:
- Stone theatre donation plaque. The Latin inscription can be translated as: 'For the honour of the divine house of the Emperor Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pius, father of his country, consul for the second time, and to the Divinities of the Emperors, Marcus Ulpius Januarius, aedile of the village of Petuaria, presented this [new] stage at his own expense'. Excavated from the Romano-British town of 'Petuaria' at Brough, East Yorkshire, in 1937. Context: 'found standing on edge outside the west wall of Building I'. Roman.
Physical Information
- Material:
- stone
- Description:
- Stone theatre donation plaque (RIB 707). A thick limestone slab, 584 mm high and originally 940mm long. The well cut lettering is on a plain central panel, originally about 635mm long, flanked at each side by two crescent-shaped ornaments, forming together a pelta ornament similar to those that so often occur on the distance slabs on the Antonine Wall, with which it is contemporary. In this triangular space is the letter 'C'.
The surface had badly flaked in the centre and the right side and the upper edge of the stone had perished. It was split into thin laminae, running the whole length of the stone, and between these water and earth had penetrated, leaving it in a very fragile condition.
Dimensions:
| Type | Height | Width | Depth | Diameter | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Approximate measurement | 584 |
