Tombstone

A stone tombstone dedicated to Lucius Pompeius Licetus. Licetus came from Arretium (modern day Arezzo, Italy).

The inscription reads:
D[IS MANIBUS]/L[UCIO] POMPEI[O GNAEI] F[ILIO]/ LICETO DO[MO]/ POMPTINA [TRIBU AR]/ RETIO A[NORUM...]/ H[ERES] F[ACIUNDUM CURAVIT]:

Translates as:
'To the shades of the dead [and] to Lucius Pompeius Licetus [son of Gnaeus], of the Pomptine voting tribe, from Arretium, aged [...] years. His heir had this erected.'

We know that Arretium was a town that supplied recruits to the Roman army from the 1st century AD onwards. So Licetus may have been a soldier who died in London. Names like these indicate the cosmopolitan nature of London's earliest population.