Roman Dedication Plaque, The Yorkshire Museum, York
CORELLIA OPTATA
'To the spirits of the departed. Corellia Optata, 13 years old. Ye mysterious spirits who dwell in Pluto's Acherusian realms, and whom the meagre ashes and the shade, empty semblance of the body, seek, following the brief light of life; sire of an innocent daughter, I, a pitiable victim of unfair hope, bewail her final end, Quintus Corellius Fortis, her father set this up'










