Find Spot record 8030/59 - Roman Altar to Genii, Foregate Street

Found in a cellar in Foregate St. in 1693 was an inscription dedicated to a Genii. According to Hubner, who was comparing it to two other similar finds from Chester ‘the latest of them by the character of its lettering, ...on which with the stature of the Genius with the cornucopiae and the faint remains of a text belonging to it, are figured, may, as it mentions the domini nostril invictissimi Augusti, be attributed to Severus and Caracalla; but may be perhaps ascribed also to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus; which makes no great difference in its epoch’ (1).

<1> Hubner, Prof., 1890, The Roman Inscriptions of Deva (Chester), p125 (Article in Journal). SCH5581.