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

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Identification

Object number
YORYM : 2010.43
Number of objects
1
ID
13911

Physical Characteristics

Materials
Gritstone (Whole)

Find spot

Place
York