Inscribed tombstone

Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 109

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: The inscribed panel from a tombstone with the right margin intact; only the three-legged table and a fragment of a mattressed couch survive from the funeral banquet scene which stood above.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (East), Chester

Date: 9.1887

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 18 inches; width 18 inches

Inscription: D M / FLAVI / A SATURNINA
D(is) M(anibus) Flavia Saturnina [...
To the spirits of the departed, Flavia Saturnina ...
Latin


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