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Wroxeter writing: The Wroxeter Forum inscription

Black and white photograph of the Wroxeter forum inscription. The cracks are still visible after being pieced together from many fragments.
Wroxeter Forum inscription
[Shropshire Archive reference: PH/W/38/3]

Transcript

IMPERATORI CAESARI DIUI TRAIANI PARTHICI FILIO DIUI NERVAE NEPOTI TRAIANO HADRIANO AUGUSTO PONTIFICI MAXIMO TRIBUNICIA POTESTATE XIIII CONSULI III PATRI PATRIAE CIVITAS CORNOVIORUM

Translation

For the Emperor Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, son of the deified Trajan, conquerer of Parthia, grandson of the deified Nerva, Pontifex Maximus, in the fourteenth year of tribunician power, thrice consul, father of his country, the civitas of the Cornovians (erected this).

[Translation source: Roman Inscriptions of Britain, (Oxford, 1965)]

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