Messages from the Past Exploring inscriptions from Roman Britain Introducing inscriptions: Lesson 2 Regina engraving from Lapidarium Septentrionale Learning objectives pupils can make use of key words (who, where, when, what, why, how) to
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Messages from the Past Exploring inscriptions from Roman Britain
Introducing inscriptions: Lesson 2 Regina engraving from Lapidarium Septentrionale<br>
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Learning objectives pupils can make use of key words (who, where, when, what, why, how) to frame historically-valid questions about life in Roman Britain Introducing inscriptions: Lesson 2<br>
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Introducing Inscriptions 2 Now you have worked out how to use the evidence from Roman inscriptions to find out about the lives of the people making and using objects in Roman Britain.
Which question words did you use to find out information from the inscriptions? Now look back at your worksheet and ask your learning partner a question about one of the objects you studied, using the question words.<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 Now we can visit Roman Britain and find out about everyday life there from inscriptions. What would you like to find out about someone in Roman Britain? We can find all the objects with writing on from Roman Britain on one website https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/schools/
Now visit the RIB website and watch the ‘how to use a record’ video here.<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 Who are you? Latin text
To the spirits of the departed (and to) Regina, his freedwoman and wife, a Catuvellaunian by tribe, aged 30, Barates of Palmyra (set this up).
Palmyrene text
Regina, the freedwoman of Barates, alas. HINT: You can usually work out whether the person in an inscription was male or female by looking at the letters at the end of their name. A woman would have a name that appears with an -a or -ae ending My name is Regina Worksheet 2
Introducing Regina<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 How old are you? HINT: You can work out how old the person in the inscription was by looking at the Roman numerals next to the letters ANN (which is an abbreviation for the Latin word ‘annorum’ meaning years) X = 10 I am 30 years old Worksheet 2
Introducing Regina Drawing: R. G. Collingwood<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 Are you a slave or a free person? HINT: A freedman or freedwoman is someone who used to be a slave but now is free. I am the wife of Barates. I used to be a slave but now I am free. Latin text
To the spirits of the departed (and to) Regina, his freedwoman and wife, a Catuvellaunian by tribe, aged 30, Barates of Palmyra (set this up).
Palmyrene text
Regina, the freedwoman of Barates, alas. Worksheet 2
Introducing Regina<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 Where do you come from? HINT: Regina was a member of the Catuvellaunian tribe, who occupied a large part of south-eastern England – today’s Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. I come from the Catuvellauni tribe, in South East England Latin text
To the spirits of the departed (and to) Regina, his freedwoman and wife, a Catuvellaunian by tribe, aged 30, Barates of Palmyra (set this up).
Palmyrene text
Regina, the freedwoman of Barates, alas. Worksheet 2
Introducing Regina<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 When was the inscription made? Why was the text written in the first place? Where was the inscription found? The text has told us some basic information about Regina. But what else can we find out about her from the object? Worksheet 2
Introducing Regina RIB 1065<br>
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Introducing inscriptions 2 My name was Regina. I was 30 years old when I died. I used to be Barates’ slave but he set me free and then married me. I come from South East England but I now live further north in Arbeia in the Roman province of Britannia in the 2nd century CE. My husband Barates set this tombstone up for me when I died. Latin text
To the spirits of the departed (and to) Regina, his freedwoman and wife, a Catuvellaunian by tribe, aged 30, Barates of Palmyra (set this up).
Palmyrene text
Regina, the freedwoman of Barates, alas. Worksheet 2
Introducing Regina<br>
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Extension questions:
Can you think why Regina may have moved from South East England up to Arbeia (near modern day South Shields)?
Why do you think there is an extra part of text written below the Latin in a different language (Palmyrene)? What do you think this might tell us about Barates?
Can you deduce anything about the relationship between Barates and Regina from this inscription?<br>
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Introducing Inscriptions 2 – report back What can inscriptions tell us about life in Roman Britain? Which question words can we use to find out information from our evidence? Why did people use writing in Roman Britain – is it the same now? Who? Why? When? How? Where? What? What objects did people write on in Roman Britain – is it the same now? Did anything that you found out surprise you about life in Roman Britain?<br>
