altar

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Object Type: altar
Museum number: 1836,0805.1
Description: Red sandstone altar, with faint inscription and decorated sides. Dedicated to Fortune the Home-bringer, to Aesculapius and to Salus. The altar was set up by the freedmen and slaves in the household of a Roman officer, Titus Pomponius Mamilianus Rufus Antistianus Funisulanus Vettonianus, who was the legatus of the 20th legion at Chester, circa AD 100.
Cultures/periods: Romano-British
Production date: 2ndC
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Chester (Cheshire), legionary fortress
Materials: sandstone
Dimensions: Height: 736 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: R I B / The Roman Inscriptions of Britain (I, 445, p. 146-147); Hobbs & Jackson 2010 / Roman Britain Life at the Edge of Empire (p. 39, fig. 27)
Location: On display (G49/od)
Subjects: classical deity; allegory/personification
Associated names: Named in inscription: Tyche/Fortuna; Named in inscription: Asclepius; Named in inscription: Hygieia/Salus
Acquisition name: Donated by: Sir Philip Malpas de Gray Egerton
Department: Britain, Europe and Prehistory
Registration number: 1836,0805.1
Conservation: Treatment: 27 Nov 1995; Treatment: 24 Jun 1986

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