Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 48

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Tombstone of Legion XX Valeria Victrix. Broken across the die; the decoration above the die is much damaged, and the base is missing.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (West), Chester

Date: 1891

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 47 inches; width 27 inches

Inscription: Q POSTV / MIVS Q F / PAPIR SOLVS / EMERITA MIL / LEG XX C P P / ANN XXXV / STIP XXI / H S E
Q(uintus) Postumius Q(uinti) f(ilius) Papir(ia tribu) [S]olus Emerita mil(es) leg(ionis) XX c(enturia) p(rimi) p(ili) ann(orum) xxxv stip(endiorum) xxi h(ic) s(itus) e(st)
Quintus Postumius Solus, son of Quintus, of the Papirian voting-tribe from Emerita, soldier in the Twentieth Legion, in the senior century, aged 35, served 21 years. He is buried here.
Emerita was in west-central Spain. The primus pilus was the senior centurion of the legion; Postumius was in his centuria. Latin