III Inscriptions

Inscriptions on STONE ('Monumental') have been arranged as in the order followed by R.G. Collingwood and R.P. Wright in The Roman Inscriptions of Britain Vol.i (Oxford, 1965) and (slightly modified) by R.S.O.Tomlin, R.P. Wright and M.W.C. Hassall, in The Roman Inscriptions of Britain Vol.iii (Oxford, 2009), which are henceforth cited respectively as RIB (1-2400) and RIB III (3001-3550).Citation is by item and not page number.Inscriptions on PERSONAL BELONGINGS and the like (instrumentum domesticum) have been arranged alphabetically by site under their counties.For each site they have been ordered as in RIB, pp.xiii-xiv.The items of instrumentum domesticum published in the eight fascicules of RIB II (Gloucester and Stroud, 1990-95), edited by S.S. Frere and R.S.O.Tomlin, are cited by fascicule, by the number of their category (RIB 2401-2505) and by their sub-number within it (e.g.RIB II.2, 2415.53).Non-literate graffiti and graffiti with fewer than three complete letters have generally been excluded.When measurements are quoted, the width precedes the height.Roman inscriptions found in Britain, including writing-tablets, can be found online at .2 In a medieval rubbish pit during excavation by Pre-Construct Archaeology, and published (sf 44) in the forthcoming final report.3 Although now abraded, it runs parallel to the setting-out lines and at right-angles to the left edge, both edges being not quite at right-angles to the face but receding slightly.The reverse face is rough and untooled, but probably original, since there is no sign of its having split off a thicker slab; and other Roman inscribed marble slabs found in London (RIB 24, 26, 36) are quite as thin.The marble, probably Italian Carrara, was imported and would have been used sparingly.This is not a free-standing tombstone, but a plaque for insertion into a masonry structure, probably a niche for cremated ashes in a columbarium.4 Notes line-by-line.1.Only part of the first letter survives, the edge of a vertical stroke with serifs at top and bottom.It is indented, to mark this line as the heading.It might be D M with the name of the deceased carried over into line 2 ending with -ae, but neater than this clumsy division would be the formula DM et memoriae, as in RIB 23 (London).2. The name would then begin with T, whether an abbreviated praenomen or the nomen.3. LIA would then be towards the end of the cognomen, for example -lianus, -liaris, -liatus, whether masculine or feminine.4.There is no letter after A, marking it as an abbreviation for 'years', whether accusative a(nnos) after q(ui) u(ixit) or similar, or genitive a(nnorum), in either case followed by the numeral.5 In the grounds of a house in Grange Road, Fenham, Newcastle, c. 0.8 km west of the Roman fort and Vallum crossing.It was donated to the Great North Museum: Hancock, from where Jo Anderson sent details and