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Tampium
* A.L.F Rivet & C. Smith : The Place-names of Roman Britain, p 467-68 :Â
SOURCE :Â
H. G. Pflaum, 'Le Marbre de Thorigny', Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, No. 292 (Paris, 1948), p. 9 (also CIL XIII. 3 162). The text is on three sides of a statue-base found at Vieux and now at Thorigny in Normandy (France). The relevant part of the text on the left side reads in expanded form :Â
Exemplum epistulae Claudii Paulini legati Augusti pro praetore provinciae Britanniae ad Sennium Sollemnem. A TAMPIO.
The inscription (of A.D. 238) records a letter which Tiberius Claudius Paulinus, governor of Lower Britain, sent from Tampium to his friend Sennius Sollemnis.
DERIVATION. Tampium appears to be a proper form, recorded in this unique source. It has no analogues and it is impossible to conjecture an etymology or meaning.
IDENTIFICATION. Unknown. Though Paulinus is here recorded simply as governor of Britannia, his date (established by RIB 1280) and the mention in the present inscription of Legio VI (stationed at York) combine to show that his province was actually Britannia Inferior. This included York and Lincoln (JRS, XL (1921), 102 : the dedication at Bordeaux by M. Aurelius Lunaris) and this restricts the area in which the bame should be sought. Anay connection with the Ala (I Pannoniorum) Tampiana is unlikely, since the author of this boastful inscription would surely have insisted on accuracy in the transcription of the letter".
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