Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 76

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Lower part of a tombstone with an inscribed panel and some vertical cracks. There was probably originally some ornamentation above the panel.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (West), Chester

Date: 1892

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 33 inches; width 29 inches

Inscription: D M / L FSTINIO PROBO FL / VIX AN II D XXVIIII / L SEM PROBIANVS / PATER F C
D(is) M(anibus) L(ucio) F[e]stinio Probo f[i]l(io) vix(it) an(nos) ii d(ies) xxviiii L(ucius) Sem(pronius) Probianus patr f(aciendum) c(uravit)
To the departed spirits, to his son Lucius Festinius Probus, who lived 2 years and 29 days, his father, Lucius Sempronius Probianus, had this set up.
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