Category: People & Society
Named people, Caledonians/Maeatae/Picts, women, ethnicity, communities and social identity.
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Gladiator II — Caracalla, Geta and Corstorphine
Caracalla and Geta portrayed in the film Gladiator II came to Britain with the imperial family in AD 208. Major…
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Materna at Mumrills Fort
A woman called Materna at Mumrills Roman fort has scratched her name on two pieces of pottery in 155 AD.…
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Flavia Baetica – a Spanish wife
A Roman tombstone (RIB 2115) from Birrens (ancient Blatobulgium) memorialises Afutianus, son of Bassus, centurion of the Second Cohort of Tungrians,…
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The Maeatae
All mentions of the Maeatae come from the 3rd-century Roman senator and historian Cassius Dio’s Roman History (specifically Books 76 and…
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Gaius Cossutius Saturninus – African
From Roman Africa to Hadrian’s Wall More than 2,000 kilometres separate the warm Mediterranean coast of Algeria from the windswept…
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Vibia Pacata – a North African Wife
Vibia Pacata is said to be a North African wife of a centurion and is named on a tombstone near…
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Julia of Strageath Roman Fort
An amphora of olive oil was found with the name Julia scratched on it at Strageath Roman Fort from the…
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Quintus Lollius Urbicus:The African Governor
For a few years in the early AD 140s, Quintus Lollius Urbicus was probably the most powerful man in Britain.…
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Caledonian man in Santo Tomé, a municipality of Jaén, Spain
Quinto Fulvio, Caledonis filio, Sergia (tribu) … Gaius Flaminius … posuit. Translation “For Quintus Fulvius, son of a Caledonian, of…
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Caledonian Women in Austria
A tombstone in Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria, near the Danube, records two Caledonian women. The Latin inscription is Mari[a(?)] Caledonia a[n(norum)] LXet…
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Julia Domna – an emperor’s wife
Julia Domna (c. 160–170 – 217 CE) was born at Emesa, modern Homs in Syria. She was far more than…
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Women in Roman Scotland
Wives, mothers, servants, worshippers and local women on Rome’s northern frontier The traditional story of Roman Scotland is overwhelmingly male.…
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Named People of Roman Scotland
The names behind the forts, armies and frontiers Most of the people who lived in Scotland during the Roman period…
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Caledonian Tribes
When Roman armies first entered what is now Scotland, they did not encounter a country called Scotland or a single…
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Explore the People of Roman Scotland
Who were the Romans in Scotland? When we talk about “the Romans” in Scotland, it is easy to imagine an…
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Valerius Nigrinus
Here’s the Valerius Nigrinus you can actually pin down in Britain: Who? A Roman auxiliary cavalryman named Valerius Nigrinus, recorded…
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Gaius Arrius Domitianus
Gaius Arrius Domitianus is securely attested only in Scotland, at Newstead/Trimontium (Scottish Borders), where he turns up four times as…
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Nectovelius
Here’s the man, straight from the stone: Who: Nectovelius, son of Vindex (Nectovelius f(ilius) Vindicis). What: a funerary inscription (tombstone)…
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Lucius Minthonius Tertullus
Here’s what we can say securely about Lucius Minthonius Tertullus—and about where the Minthonius name shows up more widely. Attestations…
