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Lisieux: Gallo-Roman grave stela with inscription (1st c. AD)
Lisieux: Gallo-Roman grave stela (Caen Mus.Normandie; photo Athena Review 2013)
This
stela is the tombstone of Vostrus, an 80-year old man who died in the
1st century AD at a site in Lisieux called Les Buissonnets. The
relief sculpture, now defaced, once represented a portrait of Vostrus.
The Latin inscription, with typical abbreviations, reads VOSTRUS / AUSI F[ilius] V[ixit] A[nnos] LXXX, or "Vostrus, son of Ausus, lived 80 years."
Lisieux, located about 25 miles (40 km) east of Caen, was occupied from the 1st century AD onward by Roman settlements, and has necropoli dating from several periods.
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