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Collection Item: Tombstone
Basic info
- Collection
- Archaeology
- Object name
- Tombstone
- Object category
- Roman
- Description
- Object described in Eboracum as 'tombstone fragment of gritstone, 30 ins. by 37ins. by 7 ins., broken off across the first and second lines of the inscription. The surviving top contains a large round-headed scalloped niche, above an inscribed panel with a moulded border. Above the niche is a decoration of stylised flowers and foliage, and in the spandrels two Tritons defaced. In the niche the deceased woman and her husband recline on the matress and cushion of a high-backed couch with baluster legs. She holds a wine cup in her left hand, and he has his right arm about her shoulders and holds in his left a cake or roll. By the right-hand leg of the couch is a costrel for wine, and in front of it a three-legged dining table with cabriole legs, bearing food. A little girl stands in front of the couch on the left, clasping an object now obscure, perhaps a pet bird. Found in 1872, on the old cricket ground, NW of the present Railway Station'.
AELIAE AELIANAE
VIX (IT) AN[NOS....
'To Aelia Aeliana; she lived....years....'
- Production date start
- 43
- Production date end
- 410
- Period
- Roman
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2010.43
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 13911
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Gritstone (Whole)