Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 85

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Left side of a tombstone, broken into four fragments; the left margin is intact.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (West), Chester

Date: 3.1891

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 29 inches; width 20 inches

Inscription: D / G VALERI / MIL L / C POSTV / GALERI / AN / STPEN
D(is) M(anibus) G(auis) Valeri[us...] mil(es) l[eg(ionis)...] c(enturia) Postu[mi...] Galeri[a (tribu)...] an[n(orum)...] st(i)pen[d(iorum)...
To the spirits of the departed, Gaius Valerius ..., soldier of the ... Legion from the century of Postumius ..., of the Galerian voting-tribe, ..., aged ..., of ... years' service ...
Latin