From the BBC:The tombstone was found near skeletal remains thought to belong to the person named on
From the BBC:The tombstone was found near skeletal remains thought to belong to the person named on its inscription, making the discovery unique.Archaeologists behind the dig in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said they believed it marked the grave of a 27-year-old woman called Bodica.The bodies of three children were also found in the “family burial plot”.Neil Holbrook, of Cotswold Archaeology, translated the Roman inscription on the tombstone, which reads: “To the spirit of the departed Bodica [or Bodicaca], wife, lived for 27 years.” “What’s weird is that the inscription only fills half of the panel, so there’s a space left below it."You can see horizontal marking-out lines, so I guess what they were going to do was come back later when her husband died and add his name to the inscription,” Mr Holbrook added.He added that the skeletal remains, including the skull, were being excavated from beneath the headstone.Latinists! You might be able to piece some of this together! Here’s the inscription (which you can make out pretty well, actually):DMBODICACIACONIUNXVIXITANNOSXXVII -- source link
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