| Corpus Refs: | Collingwood/Wright/1965:908 |
| Site: | OLCAR |
| Discovery: | inc, 1814 Mathews, R. |
| History: | Found in 1814 beside the Roman road east of Old Carlisle; in the Carlisle museum by 1927 when it was drawn by Collingwood. |
| Geology: | |
| Dimensions: | 0.64 x 0.46 x 0.0 (converted from Collingwood/Wright/1965) |
| Setting: | in display |
| Location: | Carlisle Museum (Cat: 87[14]) Collingwood/Wright/1965, 302: `Now in Carlisle Museum'. |
| Form: | block |
| Condition: | complete , good The stone is broken across the top, but apart from the upper line border nothing of the inscriptions appears to be lost. |
| Folklore: | none |
| Crosses: | none |
| Decorations: | The inscription has a border around it, two lines each to the left and right, and one line at the bottom. Only a small section of the upper border survives, and it is uncertain whether it would have consisted of more than one line. |
| Collingwood/Wright (1965): | TANCORIX | MULIER | VIGSITANNOS | SEGSAGTNTA Expansion: TANCORIX MULIER VIGSIT ANNOS SEGSAGINTA. Translation: Tancorix (PN), a woman, lived sixty years. Collingwood/Wright/1965 302 reading only |
| Orientation: | horizontal |
| Position: | n/a ; broad ; n/a ; panel The text, except for the last line, is within a border. |
| Incision: | inc |
| Date: | 400 - 599 (Dark/Dark/1996) |
| Language: | Latin (rcaps) |
| Ling. Notes: | The word `vixit' has here been spelt VIGSIT indicating post-classical pronunciation of Latin. This spelling is also found in North Africa on an inscription dated to AD 449. See Diehl/1927--31, no. 2815A. The word `sexaginta' has also been spelt SEGSAGINTA, indicating the same phenomenon. |
| Palaeography: | The text is all in Roman capitals. The L has an oblique `foot', he Rs are closed, but with a shortened diagonal stroke, and the Os are elongated. The Gs are close to half-uncial with a descending, and angled, stroke from the bottom of the bow. The `I' in segsaginta has been carved with a top cross-bar like a T, while the text runs beyond the bordered area. |
| Legibility: | good The text is clear. |
| Lines: | 4 |
| Carving errors: | 1 |
| Doubtful: | yes |