RIB 3131. Fragmentary tombstone

https://romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions/3131

Support

Type of object
tombstone
Material
Purbeck marble
Dimensions
(a) 0.075 × 0.11 × 0.02 m
(b) 0.07 × 0.065 × 0.02 m
(c) 0.05 × 0.06 × 0.02 m
Condition
Three non-conjoining fragments.
Site
Colchester (Camulodunum)
Find context
Found in the lower fill of the boundary ditch of the extramural cemetery (TL 9925 2445). Other fragments were also found, the largest 0.13 by 0.11 m, but they were not inscribed.
Find date
2005
Modern location
Now in the Colchester and Essex Museum, Colchester.
Institution/acc. #
Colchester Museum: inv. no. unknown

Text field

Style of lettering
(not specified)
Letter heights
(not specified)

Text

Origin of text
Colchester
Ancient site
Camulodunum
Text type
Epitaph
Date
(no indication)

Edition

a
[ ̣ ̣ ̣]ṆTI
[ ̣ ̣ ̣]Ṇ
[ ̣ ̣ ̣]
b
Perhaps [ ̣ ̣ ̣]
[ ̣ ̣ ̣] t(estamento) p(oni) ị(ussit) [ ̣ ̣ ̣]
c
[ ̣ ̣ ̣]
[ ̣ ̣ ̣]N

Translation

…left instructions in his will for this to be set up.

Commentary and notes

If so, (b) would be the second British example of this formula: compare RIB 257 (Lincoln, pre-Flavian).

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