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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLEM:1999.31 Institution name Colchester Collections Object name plaque, votive plaque Description A copper alloy ansate (rectangular with tabs along the short ends similar to handles) Roman plaque. A punched inscription is on it reading [---]VSCV / [---]M, though due to its fragmentary nature it is extremely difficult to interpret. Roger Tomlin, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and specialist in Roman inscriptions, has suggested the bottom part reads VSLM, which stands for votum solvit libens merito meaning 'discharges the vow freely, as is deserved'. The top part might be a name ending -us with the second part of the name beginning Cu-. Production period Roman Inscription Content [---]VSCV / [---] M Material metal Location In Store Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLEM:1999.31
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

plaque, votive plaque
Description

A copper alloy ansate (rectangular with tabs along the short ends similar to handles) Roman plaque. A punched inscription is on it reading [---]VSCV / [---]M, though due to its fragmentary nature it is extremely difficult to interpret. Roger Tomlin, Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and specialist in Roman inscriptions, has suggested the bottom part reads VSLM, which stands for votum solvit libens merito meaning 'discharges the vow freely, as is deserved'. The top part might be a name ending -us with the second part of the name beginning Cu-.
Production period

Roman
Inscription Content

[---]VSCV / [---] M
Material

metal
Location

In Store

Details