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Article: Curator's Choice: The Roman Baths Museum
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 11, 1994
- Author:
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I've not selected my favourite object but the one I find most
intriguing because it tells us a lot about Roman Bath from
comparatively little. It is the tombstone of a priest called Gaius
Calpurnius Receptus, who worked for the temple of Sulis Minerva at
Bath. It reads in translation: "To the spirits of the departed;
Gaius Calpurnius Receptus, priest of the goddess Sulis, lived 75
years; Calpurnia Trifosa, his freedwoman (and) wife, had this set
up."
As with all inscriptions, it contains a lot of information. We
know that this man was a priest of the goddess Sulis who lived to a
great age for the time. We then read in his tombstone that his
freedwoman wife had it set up. Now this is ...