anyone here know latin?

[cameron marical]

hey, i am wondering if any one here knows latin for a quick translation for me. what does divafav mean? and also, what does stinafav mean? thanks.

[CharonY]

This do not look like Latin words to me. However they just could be mangled up. The Roman "V" is the same as "U" and if I just look at the word it could be something like Diva Faustina, the wive of Antonius Pius.

Edited April 11, 2009 by CharonY

[cameron marical]

no, it looks to me like divafav. and then next to it is stinafia. i know its in somekind of language and not just gibberish. they may be abbreviations for something, im not sure.

who was antonius pius?

 

what other languages were back in roman times?

 

thanks.

[Martin]

This do not look like Latin words to me. However they just could be mangled up. The Roman "V" is the same as "U" and if I just look at the word it could be something like Diva Faustina, the wive of Antonius Pius.

 

Cameron, I'm impressed. Charon has done a brilliant decoding job for you.

In old inscriptions they sometimes did not use spaces.

Sometimestheyranthe

wordstogeth

erlikethis.

and they might break arbitrarily when they came to the end of the stone and needed to start a new line

 

The emperor was sometimes made a god after he died, and also the wife or empress could be made a goddess or "Diva".

So if her name was Faustina after she died she was referred to as

Diva Faustina (the divine Faustina)

 

Your inscription looks very much like

 

DIVA FAUSTINA FIA

 

here is wiki about her:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustina_the_Elder

It says that her husband, the Emperor, deified her (made her a Diva) after she died.

Her husband was Antoninus Pius, the emperor who came after Hadrian

Edited April 11, 2009 by Martin