Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 13

Object name: building dedication

Description: Fragment, probably from the head of a rounded doorway or niche. The text can only be restored conjecturally and may once have been filled with metal. This, and 1999.6.20, are the only inscribed stones found in the North Wall which are not certainly tombstones.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (East), Chester

Date: 1887

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 23 inches; width 12 inches; depth 10 inches

Inscription: [...] METP[...] / [...] ACRA [...] / [...] FA [...]
...aede]m et p[orticum...s]acra[m...] fa[ciendam curavit
...had] (this) temple (?) and colonnade (?) built
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