Basic info

Collection

Archaeology

Title

Tombstone of Mantinia Maerica

Object name

Tombstone

Object category

Roman

Description

Broken in two pieces. Described in Eboracum as "Tombstone, of gritstone, 2ft 5ins by 6ft 2ins by 6ins, now broken across the inscription. A plain, flat-topped frame encloses a round-headed niche hung with two swags of laurel; in the niche the deceased reclines on a high-backed couch with matress and baluster legs, holding a cup in her left hand. In front is a small table, with three cabriole legs, and a boy, standing left, holding a jug and a cantharus, or two-handled wine cup. The D.M. is in the spandrels above the niche; the rest of the inscription, in a sunk panel with a moulded frame, comes below... D(IS) M(ANIBVS) MANTIAE ET TAET RICAE ET CANDIDAE EIVS MATRI BARITAE CALPVRNIVS SIMI[L]IS TITVLVM POSIVT 'To the spirits of the departed and for Mantia and Taetrica and her mother, Candida Barita, Calpurnius Similis set up this inscription'"

Production date start

43

Production date end

410

Period

Roman