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Twelve Tables
Roman statute
Arch of Titus
triumphal arch in Rome (constructed c. 81 AD)
Sator Square
word square containing a five-word Latin palindrome
Pyramid of Cestius
Ancient pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery
Res Gestae Divi Augusti
autobiographical inscription of Augustus Caesar, at Temple of Rome and Augustus at Ankara, Turkey
Obelisk of Theodosius
ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Thutmose III re-erected in the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known today as At Meydanı or Sultanahmet Meydanı, in the modern city of Istanbul, Turkey) by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in the 4th century AD
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
comprehensive collection of ancient Latin inscriptions
Lapis Niger
ancient shrine in the Roman Forum, known for an inscription in old Latin
fasti
In ancient Rome, the fasti (Latin plural) were chronological or calendar-based lists, or other diachronic records or plans of official and religiously sanctioned events. After Rome's decline, the word fasti continued to be used for similar records in Christian Europe and later Western culture.
Praeneste fibula
7th-century BC Old Latin inscription
Temple of Augustus in Ankara
historic temple in Ankara
Duenos Inscription
kernos
Tomb of the Scipios
common tomb of the Cornelii Scipiones family during the Roman Republic
Column of Marcian
Roman triumphal column in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera
Roman soldier of the Cohors I Sagittariorum (c. 22 BC - AD 40)
Column of the Goths
Roman triumphal column in Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
Pilate Stone
1st-century piece of limestone with inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate
Fasti Capitolini
inscription
Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus
Old Latin inscription dating to 186 BC
Sit tibi terra levis
Latin inscription on funerary items
Washington Square Arch
triumphal arch in Washington Square Park in Manhattan, New York City
Pillar of the Boatmen
oldest monument in Paris, a column dedicated to Jupiter
Botorrita plaque
four Celtiberian bronze plaques from 2nd-century-BC Spain
Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae
anthology of Latin inscriptions
Lapis Satricanus
Latin inscription that dates to the late 6th to early 5th centuries BC
Fasti Triumphales
part of the Fasti capitolini, recording the Triumphs celebrated by Roman generals
Vagdavercustis
thumb|Sacrificial altar of dea Vagdavercustis dedicated by Titus Flavius Constans in Cologne 165 AD Vagdavercustis is a Germanic goddess known from a dedicatory inscription on an altar found at Cologne (Köln), Germany. The stone dates from around the 2nd century CE and is now in a museum in Cologne.
Tabula Banasitana
bronze inscription found in North Africa
Fasti Ostienses
fragmentary calendar or fasti from Ostia
Lex Irnitana
Collection of six bronze tablets containing Flavian municipal law
Lex Ursonensis
ancient Roman law
Tabula clesiana
bronze plate that contains the edict of the Caesar Claudius
Allia Potestas
Roman freedwoman
Tables of Heraclea
Laudatio Turiae
Latin inscription
Augsburg Victory Altar
Roman altar
CIL 4.5296
graffiti poem found at Pompeii
menologium rusticum
Ancient Roman inscriptions guiding farming in each month
Frankfurt silver inscription
archaeological find from a burial ground in the former Roman city of Nida