Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Inscribed object

Tombstone

Object category

Roman

Description

Fragment of a tombstone. Belongs with, but does not join to, YORYM : 2007.6167.ii. Together they are discribed in Eboracum as "Tomnstone fragments, two, of gritstone, 1ft and 1ft 4ins by 1ft 8ins, both by 7 ins, with the inscription in a sunk panel with a moulded frame. D(IS)] M(ANIBVS) MA]NLIVS ...FIL...] CRESCE(N)S .....] A VET(ERAVS) LEG(IONIS) [VI] VIC(TRICIS) CA................... PRI.... ET M 'To the spirits of the departed.... Manlius Crescens, son f...., from........a, a veteran of the Sixth Legion Victorius, Ca.... Pri... and M....' There is hardly room for the tribe as well as the filiation of Crescens, and his origio must have been a short name, such as Parma. The two names below are presumably the nomen and cognomen of one heir, followed by et, which would introduce the name of another."

Production date start

43

Production date end

410

Period

Roman