Altar

Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 209

Object name: altar

Description: Altar, very weathered, cracked across the die and lacking the right bolster; on the sides, on right a jug, on left a patera.

Period: Roman

Place found: Red House Croft, near Heronbridge, Chester

Date: 1931

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 25 inches; width 15 inches

Inscription: DEABVS / MATRIBVS / OLLOTOTIS / IUL [S]ECVN / DVS ET AE / LIA AVGVSTI / NA
Deabus Matribus Ollototis Iul(ius) [S]ecundus et Aelia Augustina
To the Mother Goddesses Ollotatae, Julius Secundus and Aelia Augustina (set this up)
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