Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Inscribed object

Tombstone

Object category

Roman

Description

Tombstone commemorating Corellia Optata. Described in Eboracum as "Tombstone of gritstone, 2ft by 3ft by 7ins, with the upper panel, except for the feet carved in relief, broken off. The inscription is in a moulded panel with loops at each corner and decorative curved projections in the middle of each side, while the letters D M lie outside it, flanking the relief in an extra loop above the top corners, only the M now surviving. D(IS)] M(ANIBVS) CORELLIA OPTATA AN(NORVM) XIII SECRETI MANES QVI REGNA ACHERVSIA DITIS INCOLI TIS QVOS PARVA PETVNT POST LUMINA VITE EXIGVIS CINIS ET SIMVLACRVM CORPORIS VM BRA INSONTIS GNATE GENI TOR SPE CAPTVS INIQVA SVPREMVM HVNC NATE MISERANDVS DEFLEO FINEM Q(VINTVS0 CORE(LLIVS) FORTIS PAT(ER) F(ACIVNDVM) C(VRAVIT) 'To the spirits of the departed. Corellia Optata, 13 years old. Ye hidden spirits that dwell in Pluto's Acherusian realms, whom the scanty ash and the shade, the body's image, seek after life's little day, I , the pitiable father of an innocent daughter caught by cheating hope, lament her final end. Quintus Corellius Fortis, the father, thad this made.' "

Production date start

43

Production date end

410

Period

Roman