eastiseverywhere:Tombstone of the freed slave Regina, dedicated by her husband Barates of PalmyraUK
eastiseverywhere:Tombstone of the freed slave Regina, dedicated by her husband Barates of PalmyraUK (late 200s CE)South Shields Museum[Source]The BBC says:This tombstone is evidence for immigration and the mixing of cultures 1800 years ago. It was set up outside the Roman fort at South Shields in north-east England and records a British woman called Regina, who originally came from south-east England, and a man called Barates, who came from Palmyra in Syria. Regina was a slave, but Barates freed her and married her, and when she died aged 30, had this expensive tombstone made for her. It is Roman in style and has a Latin inscription, but also, uniquely in Britain, a second inscription in his own language, Aramaic, reading ‘Regina, freedwoman of Barates, alasI found out about this artefact on Mary Beard’s Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit! She mentioned that the artwork is a mixture of Roman and Palmyrene conventions too. -- source link