Collection Item: Sarcophagus
Basic info
- Collection
- Archaeology
- Object name
- Sarcophagus
- Object category
- Roman
- Description
- Front face of sarcophagus broken into three fragments. The inscription survives, but is badly weathered. Each side is decorated with a geometric design (triangle cut into a rectangle)
D[IS] M[ANIBUS] FL[A]VI BELLATORIS DEC[URIONIS] COLONIA EBORACENS[IS] VIXIT ANNOS XXVIIII MENSIB[VS] ...III ....II
To the spirits of the departed and of flavius Bellator, decurion of the colony at York; he lived 19 years.... months... days....
- Period
- Roman
Identification
- Object number
- YORYM : 2010.1205
- Number of objects
- 3
- ID
- 15431
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Gritstone (Whole)
- Dimensions
- Part width 656.0 mm
- Part length 1,674.0 mm
- Part height 132.0 mm
- Part width 169.0 mm
- Part length 238.0 mm
- Part height 148.0 mm
- Part width 434.0 mm
- Part length 540.0 mm
- Part height 160.0 mm
Find spot
- Place
- York
- Context
- To the north fo Scarborough bridge
