Inscribed tombstone

Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 101

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Part of a tombstone, dressed down during the excavation to make a building stone; the margins and most of the poor lettering have been chiselled off.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (East), Chester

Date: 1887

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 23 inches; width 17 inches

Inscription: G ATTIVS / R FINVS / AORVM / N / AU / ST
...] G(aius) Attius [... ...] R[u]finus[... ...] a[nn]orum [... ... ...]n[... ...]au[... ...]st[...
Gaius Attius Rufinus...age...
Latin


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