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The Sepulchral Monument of the Procurator C. Julius Classicianus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

R.D. Grasby  and
R.S.O. Tomlin
R.D. Grasby
Affiliation:
Bedchester, Shaftesbury
R.S.O. Tomlin
Affiliation:
Wolfson College, Oxford, [email protected]
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The evidence for an altar tomb of the Procurator of Britain, C. Julius Classicianus, consists of a richly carved bolster stone and two substantial lettered fragments, found at the foot of a Roman bastion of London's city wall during two excavations separated in time by eighty years. Reunited. at the British Museum in 1935, they form one of the most important and beautifully lettered archaeological documents of Roman London.

The purpose of this study is to reassess the information contained in the worked faces of each fragment, to review the assumptions which led to the disposition of the fragments in their present setting, and to consider whether a measured survey of lettering and layout might contribute to a fuller reconstruction of the tomb and its text.

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Britannia , Volume 33 , November 2002 , pp. 43 - 75
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Copyright © R.D. Grasby and R.S.O. Tomlin 2002. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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