Roman Inscriptions of Britain

July 14, 2016 10:15 AM

Roman Inscriptions of Britain is a searchable online database that "hosts Volume One of The Roman Inscriptions of Britain, R.G. Collingwood's and R.P. Wright's magisterial edition of 2,401 monumental inscriptions from Britain found prior to 1955. It also incorporates all Addenda and Corrigenda published in the 1995 reprint of RIB (edited by R.S.O. Tomlin) and the annual survey of inscriptions published in Britannia since."
posted by jedicus (5 comments total)

Thanks so much- we'll use this as an additional inscriptions resource for those looking at Latin inscriptions at our museum :)
posted by Mouse Army at 10:52 AM on July 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

The people called Romans, they go the house?
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:03 AM on July 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

Are there any connections with the Pictish/(Proto-)Brythonic Ogham inscriptions? I know they're two different languages, but the readings off of some Ogham (such as this one) definitely seem to be translations or origins of translations from Latin.
posted by zombieflanders at 11:20 AM on July 14, 2016

I thought this might be the site I’d found a couple of months ago having looked for more information about the two stones with Latin inscriptions which are on display in the porch of the church of St. Stephen and St. Tathan in Caerwent, just a couple of miles from where I live, but no - that was roman-britain.co.uk, where, I now see, they too have an on-line edition of Roman Inscriptions of Britain… albeit one not as readily searchable, nor, I think, as complete, as that in the FPP: for which, many thanks.
posted by misteraitch at 1:33 PM on July 14, 2016

There's a good list of Ogham stones from Britain at Babelstone, and if you look at (for example) the Devon and Cornwall section you'll see a lot of Latin/Ogham bi-textual stones.
posted by Devonian at 2:12 PM on July 14, 2016 [1 favorite]