Roman Inscription
Date
1682
Creator
Unknown, Artist
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
vol8 p388
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 303mm
width (page): 177mm
width (page): 177mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Inscription on a Roman altar in the church wall of All Saints, North Street, York, described by Martin Lister as a monument of 'conjugal affection'.
This is copied from LBO/8/264.
This is copied from LBO/8/264.
Transcription
Altar inscription: 'D(is) M(anibus) | Eglectae an(norum) | XXX h(ic) s(itae) sec(us) | Crescentem | f(ilium) an(norum) III Anto(nius) | Sthepan(us) coniugi | f(aciendum) c(uravit)/ To the spirits of the departed (and) to Eglecta, aged 30, here buried beside their son Crescens, aged 3; Antonius Stephanus had this set up to his wife.'
Letter extract: 'A broken inscription in the church walls in all Saints North Street, with the figure of a Naked Woman in Basse-Relief on the Left Side of it. The Letters (as many of them as remains) are exceedingly fair cutt beyond any thing I have yet seen of Roman Antiquities in England, and the Stone of a finer grain then ordinary. It is a monument of Conjugal Affection.'
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Letter extract: 'A broken inscription in the church walls in all Saints North Street, with the figure of a Naked Woman in Basse-Relief on the Left Side of it. The Letters (as many of them as remains) are exceedingly fair cutt beyond any thing I have yet seen of Roman Antiquities in England, and the Stone of a finer grain then ordinary. It is a monument of Conjugal Affection.'
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
This altar is still extant in the York Museum.
Lister's description was later published as ‘An account of a Roman monument found in the bishopric of Durham and of some Roman antiquities at York’, Phil. Trans. vol. 13, no. 145 (March 1683), pp. 70-74 (p. 73).
Lister's description was later published as ‘An account of a Roman monument found in the bishopric of Durham and of some Roman antiquities at York’, Phil. Trans. vol. 13, no. 145 (March 1683), pp. 70-74 (p. 73).
Related fellows
Martin Lister (1639 - 1712, British) , Physician
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