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Created by: * Barates Siduri, 2005-12-30 13:38:25

From Palmyra, Queen of Cities, to the cold northern climes of Britannia to Hadrian's Wall... a story of enduring love that lives on today.

Tombstone Inscription
From Arbeia - Place of the Arabs
South Shields, UK

D M REGINA LIBERTA ET CONIVGE BARATES PALMYRENVS NATIONE CATVALLAVNA AN XXX
(In Palmyrene): RGYN BT HRY T HBL
"To the spirits of the departed and Regina, freedwoman and wife of Barates of Palmyra, a Catuvellaunian by race, thirty years old. Alas"

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Here in these cold and bitter climes, that which sustains me is the comfort of my husband, Barates of Palmyra. Ours is a tangled tale -- of loss, of happiness, of despair, but above all, enduring love.
The evidence of that love has lasted nearly 2,000 years. My funeral monument is one of the most well-known in Britain, and a testament to the love which Barates bore me.
Join us on The Wall. And whilst you're doing that, please, what may I get for you? A glass of ale, a cup of wine, a flagon of mead?
Or perhaps I could show you my treasured roses?

Photograph: Hadrian's Wall at sunset
© 2003 Marshall Tromans