Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 67

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Tombstone broken across the knees of the figure and the fourth line of the inscription. The legs and the bottom of the kilt of the figure can be seen, with mason's tools roughly outlined at the feet.

Period: Roman1st century

Place found: North Wall (West), Chester

Date: 9.1891

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 29 inches; width 35 inches

Inscription: L CAMVLIVS L F / STELATINA A / LBANUS TAU / RINVS
L(ucius) Camulius L(uci) f(ilius) Stelatina (tribu) Albanus Taurinus
Lucius Camulius Albanus, son of Lucius, of the Stellatine voting-tribe, from the Taurine district.
The Taurini lived in north Italy, around Augusta Taurinorum (Turin). They were Celts, and the nomen Camulius comes from the name of the Celtic god Camulus. Here, as in the case of Lovesius (1999.6.47), a provincial name has been used to form a Roman nomen. Very likely Camulius served in the Twentieth Legion and lived in the first century AD. Latin