COMING SOON: An Announcement of New Scholarly Opinion Concerning My Reading of 'AELI DRACONIS' on the Ilam Pan

Staffordshire or Ilam Pan

A few years ago I very tentatively suggested that the AELI DRACONIS on the Ilam Pan should be read

differently than the conventional translations.  Rather than see AELI has an otherwise unrecorded name for Hadrian's Wall, with Draconis for a personal name or, alternately, Aelius Draco as a personal name, I wondered why it could not be a reference to the Aelian draco at the Dacian-garrisoned Banna Roman fort.  AELI DRACONIS stands in place of Banna on the pan in the listing of forts from west to east.  We have Banna recorded on two similar objects following the same line of the Wall.

Over the past few weeks I revisited the idea with Professor David Breeze and Dr. Christof Fluegel, authors of the definitive studies on the Ilam Pan.  

Their conclusion?  

Please stay tuned for that and more in my next blog post.