Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 23

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Tombstone of Legion II Adiutrix Pia Fidelis. Rectangular tombstone with a round headline, broken below.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (West), Chester

Date: 9.1891

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 32 inches; width 28 inches

Inscription: G CALVENTVS / G F CLAVD CE / LER APRO MIL / LEG II AD P F C / VIBI CLEME
G(aius) Claventius G(ai) f(ilius) Claud(ia tribu) Celer Apro, mil(es) leg(ionis) II Ad(iutricis) P(iae) F(idelis), c(enturia) Vibi Cleme[ntis] ...
Gaius Calventius Celer, son of Gaius, of the Claudian tribe, from Aprus, soldier in the Second Legion Adiutrix, in the century of Vibius Clemens...
Aprus (or Apri) was a town in Thrace (a district now covered by north-eastern Greece and european Turkey), where the Emperor Claudius established a Roman colonia. Latin