Religious dedication

Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 5 2

Object name: religious dedication

Description: Semicircular base of white marble with back rounded to fill a niche; on the top the surface is roughened and there is an iron dowel to hold a statuette of the Genius.

Period: Roman

Place found: Deanery Field, Chester

Date: 1925

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 5 inches; width 7 inches; depth 4 inches

Inscription: GENIO SIGNI[...] / LEG XX VV / T FL VALERIANVS / COLLEGIS D D
Genio signi[f(erorum)] leg(ionis) XX V(aleriae) V(ictricis) T(itus) Fl(avius) Valerianus collegis d(ono) d(edit)
To the Genius of the standard-bearers of the Twentieth Legion, Valeria Victrix, Titus Flavius Valerianus gave this as a gift to his colleagues.
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