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| RIB 1151 + 2 images |
| The ‘GETA’ Stone |
| dedication-slab | memorial |
| stone |
| Most of the ‘GETA’ stone is in the roof of the crypt north passage. It is a dedication slab set up in about AD208 by Emperor Septimius Severus and his sons. Another fragment is in the nave north wall near the west end. |
IMP.CAES.L.SEP.SEVERVS.PI
PERTINAX.ET.IMP.CAESAR.M
AVR.ANTONINVS. PIVS. AVG
VSTI.ETP.SEPTIMIVS…
CAESARHORREVM…
VEXILLATIONE…
FECERVNT SVB…
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| Latin |
| This is reconstructed and translated as ‘The Emperor Cæsar Lucius Septimius Severus Pius Pertinax Augustus and the Emperor Cæsar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus [‘Caracalla’] and Publius Septimius Geta Cæsar built this granary through the agency of a detachment of the … Legion … under Lucius Alfenus Senecio, imperial Proprætorian legate.’ |
| The reading given in Collingwood & Wright, Roman Inscriptions in Britain for the two fragments |
| The name of Geta Cæsar has been deliberately obliterated. |
| 207–208 |
The larger part was found built into the crypt when it was discovered in 1725. The smaller part was found in February 1907 under the SW angle of St Wilfrid's cathedral.
Damnatio Memoriæ:The Latin term given to the systematic erasure of the records of existence of an enemy of the state. The Romans believed the ultimate punishment for opposing the will of Rome was not only to physically chasten an individual by torture and death (often including the culprit's family) but also to expunge any historical trace that they ever existed. Graphically illustrated by the many defaced images or stone inscriptions from across the empire, damnatio was decreed to happen not only to public records but to private property as well. [TK; see the URL for more details] |
| CND: Crypt 5; RIB 1151; Savage & Hodges 1907 Pl.XXXV |
| See also URL: en.wikipedia.org |
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| RIB 1151 + 1 image |
| The ‘GETA’ Stone smaller fragment |
| dedication-slab | memorial |
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| This smaller part of the ‘GETA’ stone is in the nave north wall near the west end. |
| 207–208 |
Part of a dedication slab found in 1907 among the foundations of the AngloSaxon south-west tower, and now built into the north wall of the nave beside the north-west door.
1997. Feb: There is a fracture through the V in the top line down through the V in the second line. [CND] |
| H 0.65 m × W 0.57 m [CND] |
| recess 1 in N wall of nave at W end |
| Nave/North Aisle/North Wall/Bay 6 (West) |
| CND: Crypt 5; RIB 1151 |
