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Roman Wall, DorchesterDorchester Roman Town HouseDorchester Roman Town House HypocaustMosaic at Dorchester Roman Town HouseRoman amphitheatre known as Maumbury RingsMount Pleasant hengeHiilfort and Roman aqueductRoman temple, Maiden CastleJordan Hill Roman Temple

Location:

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Dorchester
  • geo:50.713875,-2.428362
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Grave or burial field
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=50430

Annotations

Tombstone of Carinus, also known as the Romana stone. A tombstone of a Roman citizen on display in St George's church, Fordington, Dorchester, England. It was discovered when the floor of the church porch was lowered in 1907/8.

The Latin inscription reads:

CARINO CIVI ROM ANN L RUFINUS ET CARINA ET AVITA FILI EIUS ET ROMANA UXOR

which may be translated as "For Carinus, Roman Citizen, aged 50 years. Rufinus and Carina and Avita his children and Romana his wife had this set up." It has been placed on top of another tombstone which reads "Here Lies the Body of John Ingram who Dyed Novbr. y 1517 Aged 82." 1

References

  1. File:Carinus tombstone - Dorchester.jpg


Nearby

Durononvaria Baths

Location of town baths

Durnonovaria (Dorchester)

OmnesViae import OVPlace484

Dorset County Museum

Local Museum of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2018-03-07. Last update by René Voorburg on 2018-03-07. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/50430 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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