Record number: CHEGM: 1999 6 96

Object name: inscribed tombstone

Description: Fragment of a tombstone, with no margin intact.

Period: Roman

Place found: North Wall (West), Chester

Date: 1892

Material: stone

Dimensions: height 16 inches; width 14 inches

Inscription: IM / A SAVA / S XXX / NDIORUM / XX
...]im[... ...]a Sava[ria... ..anno]s xxxx [stipe]ndiorum [...]xx[...
...from Savaria...[lived] 40 years, of 20 (and more) years' service.
Savaria was a Claudian colony in Upper Pannonia, now Hungary. While Savaria provided recruits for the Second Legion Adiutrix, it also furnished them for other legions after the Second had left for Britain. So the man commemorated on this stone may just as well have belonged to the Twentieth Legion. Latin