Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Object name

Tombstone

Inscribed object

Tablet

Object category

Roman

Description

Described in Eboracum as "Tomb tablet fragment, of gritstone, 2ft 4ins by 2ft 7ins by 8ins, with the inscription in a moulded panel, bordered by ansae designed in a variant pelta-pattern with goose head terminals... .......O C(AII) FIL(IO) CL(AVDIA TRIBV DOMO) N]OVARIA ....LEG(IONIS) I]X HISP(ANAE) HERE DES LIB(ERTI)] PATRONO BENE MER]ENTI FECERVNT 'To.......son of Caius, of the Claudian tribe from Novaria... of the Ninth Legion Hispana. His freedmen heirs made (this tomb) for a well deserving patron.' The voting-tribe of Novaria was the tribus Claudia. There is no room on the stone for a cognomen, and this is an exmaple of its absence after AD70."

Production date start

43

Production date end

410