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When automated attribution goes wrong. Recently @Sarcanon found in our @LatinNowERC database the CIL XIII 719 inscription from Bordeaux. The inscription was attributed as one of the tituli operum or building inscriptions...
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A closer look by @Sarcanon identified it as a funerary inscription:
] | Iul(i) Iuliani [---] | Iul(iae) Restitutae | d(efunctae) an(norum) X[---] | [---] Iulianus [---] | l(ocum) d(onavit) | mari(tus)
However, the way it became attributed as building inscription is clear.
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![A closer look by @Sarcanon identified it as a funerary inscription:] | Iul(i) Iuliani [---] | Iul(iae) Restitutae | d(efunctae) an(norum) X[---] | [---] Iulianus [---] | l(ocum) d(onavit) | mari(tus)However, the way it became attributed as building inscription is clear.2/5](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/El5yed-XYAAVLHe.jpg "A closer look by @Sarcanon identified it as a funerary inscription:] | Iul(i) Iuliani [---] | Iul(iae) Restitutae | d(efunctae) an(norum) X[---] | [---] Iulianus [---] | l(ocum) d(onavit) | mari(tus)However, the way it became attributed as building inscription is clear.2/5")
] | Iul(i) Iuliani [---] | Iul(iae) Restitutae | d(efunctae) an(norum) X[---] | [---] Iulianus [---] | l(ocum) d(onavit) | mari(tus)
However, the way it became attributed as building inscription is clear.
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An automated search must have been created to attribute all inscriptions with restitut* or restituta as building inscription. Not a crazy choice as it indicates the restauration of a building. For example the votive inscription by Marcus Sattonius Iucundus from Heerlen:
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Fortun(a)e [Reduci] / M(arcus) Sattonius I[u?][cun]/dus
dec(?urio) c(oloniae) U(lpiae) T(raianae) bali[neo] / res{s}
titut[o] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) [m(erito)]
The inscription signals the restauration of the baths of Heerlen by a decurio from Xanten (Ulpia Traiana)
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![Fortun(a)e [Reduci] / M(arcus) Sattonius I[u?][cun]/dusdec(?urio) c(oloniae) U(lpiae) T(raianae) bali[neo] / res{s}titut[o] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) [m(erito)]The inscription signals the restauration of the baths of Heerlen by a decurio from Xanten (Ulpia Traiana)4/5](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/El5ykVAWkAInkmR.jpg "Fortun(a)e [Reduci] / M(arcus) Sattonius I[u?][cun]/dusdec(?urio) c(oloniae) U(lpiae) T(raianae) bali[neo] / res{s}titut[o] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) [m(erito)]The inscription signals the restauration of the baths of Heerlen by a decurio from Xanten (Ulpia Traiana)4/5")
dec(?urio) c(oloniae) U(lpiae) T(raianae) bali[neo] / res{s}
titut[o] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) [m(erito)]
The inscription signals the restauration of the baths of Heerlen by a decurio from Xanten (Ulpia Traiana)
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The name of Iulia Restituta led the funerary inscription to be attributed as building inscription. Examples like these show scholars shouldn't fear digitalisation. We are still needed to do the thinking. This was also the conclusion of Toletum XI with @PanzramSabine.
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