![]() ![]() Richard Coates suggests that while the river was as a whole called the Thames, part of it, where it was too wide to ford, was called * (p)lowonida. They are now on show at the River and Rowing Museum in Henley). Sculptures titled Tamesis and Isis by Anne Seymour Damer can be found on the bridge at Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire (the original terracotta and plaster models were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, in 1785. Since the early 20th century this distinction has been lost in common usage outside of Oxford, and some historians suggest the name Isis is nothing more than a truncation of Tamesis, the Latin name for the Thames. Ordnance Survey maps still label the Thames as "River Thames or Isis" down to Dorchester. Historically, and especially in Victorian times, gazetteers and cartographers insisted that the entire river was correctly named the Isis from its source down to Dorchester on Thames and that only from this point, where the river meets the Thame and becomes the "Thame-isis" (supposedly subsequently abbreviated to Thames) should it be so called. The Thames through Oxford is sometimes called the Isis. Downstream keystone of the central arch of Henley Bridge The Isis A similar spelling from 1210, "Tamisiam" (the accusative case of "Tamisia", see Kingston upon Thames#Early history), is found in the Magna Carta. The river's name has always been pronounced with a simple t /t/ the Middle English spelling was typically Temese and the Brittonic form Tamesis. Tamese was referred to as a place, not a river in the Ravenna Cosmography (c. It is believed that Tamesubugus' name was derived from that of the river. Indirect evidence for the antiquity of the name 'Thames' is provided by a Roman potsherd found at Oxford, bearing the inscription Tamesubugus fecit (Tamesubugus made ).
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