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© Museu de Guissona
Omeka ID 549
Iesso
Roman world

tombstone from Carthage

MGECC-1285

Object type
tombstone
Production date
400 / 499
Fabric
epigraphic material
Museum
Museu de Guissona
Culture
Roman world
Discovery location
Iesso
Materials
marble
Township
Guissona (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Lleida, Segarra)
Technique
cut, carving
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
1305 x 480 x 30 mm
Description
Rectangular funeral stone that covered a tomb. It has the inscription CARTAGO QUI ESCETI IN PACE which is headed by a primitive Christian iconographic theme, a krater flanked by two doves and grapes. It is an early Christian tombstone that defines a primitive Christianity in the city of Iesso. It was found in the necropolis of the courtyard of the chapel in the cloister of the church.

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