Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Inscribed object

Tombstone

Object category

Roman

Description

Desribed in Eboracum: "Tombstone, of limestone, rectangular tablet, 3ft by 2ft 4ins, with an inscrption in a sunk panel flanked by standing amorino supporters. The stone, broken in two pieces, was built in to All Saint's Church, North Street; the right hand piece was there exposed to weathering since the 17th century; the left hand was concealed until 1931 and thus preserved in good order. The two are now joined in the Yorkshire Museum. D(IS) M(ANIBVS) EGLECTAE AN(NORVM) XXX H(IC0 S(ITAE) SEC(VNDIO) CRESCENTE M(ARCI) F(ILIO) AN(NORVM) III ANTO(NIVS) STHEPAN(VS) CONIVGI F(ACIVNDVM0 C(VRAVIT) 'To the spirits of the departed. To Eglecta, 30 years old, laid here; to Secundius Crescens, son of Marcus, 3 years old; Antonius Stephanus has (this) made for his wife.' Marcus was presumably the prenomen of Antonius Stephanus, whose cognomen the mason, or the writer of his copy, has found difficult to spell."

Production date start

43

Production date end

410

Period

Roman