M0008035: Part of an altar from a Roman fort at Hadrian's Wall

Date:
July 1941
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/69/42
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M0008035: Part of an altar from a Roman fort at Hadrian's Wall. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Description

Photograph of a section of a Roman altar found at Borcovicus (also known as Vercovicium, Borcovicium, and Velurtion and today known as Housesteads Roman Fort), Northumberland, England. It is inscribed to a physician. The negative was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum from the Black Gate Museum, Newcastle, in February 1937.

Publication/Creation

July 1941

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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