08-26-2010, 07:26 AM
The altar and carving was done by Simon Jameson, who we met in Kelmarsh. Website here http://www.1066creations.co.uk/roman.htm . Good guy.
The wording is from a lost altar found at Brocolita in 1716 (RIB 1548)
DEO
VETERI
VOTVM
VCCVS
V L
and means An offering for the god Vheterus (or the Old Gods) from Uccus, a veteran of the legions. I wonder whether he may have been from VI Valeria Victrix given the VVVV, who were also based at Brocolita as well as (of course) the first Cohort of Batavians.
I also got a second, blank altar that I'll paint up. So many blank altars were found that I suspect many were just painted rather than carved.
The only thing I added was information and red paint!
In the background my portable lararium that I made from a stone photoframe bought at a second hand stall at our local fete, with a colour print of a Pompeii lararium painting inserted, a small bronze portable altar with Minerva and Fortuna plus a small incense burner from Ade of Armamentaria with a "to the holy genius of this place" inscription.