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Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
Palmyra.jpg


What could this say? I'm lost.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
The lack of punctuation is what's throwing me off. The words are written quite clearly, but I'm not sure about what it could say. I see helpis, and the only thing I could find for that is a wife of Boethius.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
Ti. could perhaps also be Titus... Not sure. I think I've mainly seen it for Tiberius before.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
Thank you, Pax.
 

Pacifica

grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
NP.

Do you get what it says now?

As you can see, Helpis is just part of a proper name.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
Yea, I've got it- it's a dedication to Malakbel, and the carving makes it clear (in the beginning).
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Gæmleflodland
He's quite luminous.
 

Issacus Divus

H₃rḗǵs h₁n̥dʰéri diwsú

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Location:
Gæmleflodland
Lol, I only said that because I'm trying to get enough likes.
 
 

Dantius

Homo Sapiens

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Location:
in orbe lacteo
Ti. could perhaps also be Titus... Not sure. I think I've mainly seen it for Tiberius before.
It's definitely Tiberius. Titus is abbreviated T. Exceptions could occur to that, but I think a name "Titus Claudius" is unheard of.
I guess these folks are either freedmen of a Tiberius Claudius or from a family line that was given citizenship by a Tiberius Claudius. (for instance, Caracalla's edict giving citizenship to all free men in the Roman Empire ended up giving a lot of people the praenomen-nomen combination Marcus Aurelius which was part of Caracalla's name)
 
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