Archaeology — Roman; AD 120 or later
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.
- Category:
- Archaeology
- Object ID:
- HOO88[533]<75a>
- Object name:
- tombstone
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- Production date:
- Roman; AD 120 or later
- Material:
- stone, marble
- Measurements/duration:
- H 283 mm, W 245 mm: T 30 mm (overall), WT 5331g (5.331kg) (overall)
- Part of:
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- On display:
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- Record quality:
- 100%
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- Credit:
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- Copyright holder:
- digital image © London Museum
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