{"id":961,"date":"2026-07-02T17:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/?p=961"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:23:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:23:38","slug":"inscriptions-and-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/2026\/07\/02\/inscriptions-and-ownership\/","title":{"rendered":"Inscriptions and ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hoxne hoard represents\u00a0a\u00a0considerable amount of wealth. Rather than being owned by one person, the hoard\u00a0objects\u00a0probably\u00a0originally\u00a0belonged to more than one individual,\u00a0as they include inscriptions with several different personal names. In his study of the hoard, Peter Guest suggested that the hoard was accumulated over time,\u00a0whilst Catherine Johns thought that the items were owned by a single family and were buried together for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-962\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-962 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/files\/2026\/07\/1000107001-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"354\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the silver spoons engraved with the name <strong>AVRVRSICINI<\/strong> (Aurelius Ursicinus), British Museum,1994,0408.82 (Photo: \u00a9 Trustees of the British Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most of the inscribed items are silver spoons, ten of which are engraved with the same name, Aurelius Ursicinus. Four other spoons include the name Silvicola whilst a further four bear the name Peregrinus. Since the name Aurelius Ursicinus appears more frequently than any of the others, some scholars have speculated that the hoard was perhaps owned by this individual at one point. There is no clear evidence that they were responsible for the burial of the hoard.<\/p>\n<p>Other objects inscribed with names include items of jewellery. A gold pierced bracelet from the hoard bears the inscription <strong>UTERE FELIX DOMINA IULIANE<\/strong> (\u2018use this happily lady Juliane\u2019). The bracelet appears to have been a personal gift to a female named Juliana and the donor was wishing her good fortune. Engraving objects with messages of good fortune was a common practice in the Roman period.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-964\" style=\"width: 699px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-964\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/files\/2026\/07\/juliane.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"699\" height=\"453\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Juliane bracelet from the Hoxne hoard. British Museum,1994,0408.29 (Photo: \u00a9 Trustees of the British Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P. Guest,\u00a0<em>The Late Roman Gold and Silver Coins from the Hoxne Treasure<\/em>\u00a0(British Museum Press:London, 2005)<\/p>\n<p>C. Johns,\u00a0<em>The Hoxne Late Roman Treasure: Gold jewellery and silver plate\u00a0<\/em>(British Museum Press: London, 2009)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hoxne hoard represents\u00a0a\u00a0considerable amount of wealth. Rather than being owned by one person, the hoard\u00a0objects\u00a0probably\u00a0originally\u00a0belonged to more than one individual,\u00a0as they include inscriptions with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/2026\/07\/02\/inscriptions-and-ownership\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83068,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[305568],"tags":[308646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":970,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/hoards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}