Cast Gallery catalogue number: H021

Inscription; Horseman, Suovetaurilia.

• Plaster cast: Height: 94 cm, Width: 2.79 m.
• Copy of a sandstone relief.
• The relief:
  • was found at Bridgeness (ancient Britain, modern Scotland) in 1868, at the eastern end of the Wall of Antoninus Pius.
  • is now in Edinburgh, National Museum of Antiquities.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

H 021
Distance Slab from Antonine Wall. Edinburgh

Local Sandstone
Relief
37 in high, 110 in long

From Bridgeness Ancient Britain (modern Scotland). The slab was found at the eastern end of the wall of Antoninus Pius
Scotland, Edinburgh, National Museum of Antiquities
156-162 AD

Bibliography:
F. Haverfield and H. Stuart Jones, "Some Representative Examples of Roman-British Sculpture" (JRS 2 1912) pp.128-130 no.3 fig.9