Roman Gravestone 18

This gravestone is one of several in Chester which show the dead enjoying a banquet in the afterlife. Curatia holds a drinking cup, and has a small 3-legged table in front of her couch. The two birds perched on garlands of leaves were thought to bring good fortune and to represent the soul's freedom to escape. The tritons, blowing seashell horns, reflect the belief that the souls of the dead travelled across the ocean to the Isles of the Blessed. The translation of the inscription reads: 'To the memory of the departed, Curatia Dinysia aged 40 years; erected by her heir'.

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