Roman gravestone (Gröbming)

Roman gravestone in Grobming, side of the inscription

Relief on the narrow side

The Roman gravestone in Gröbming , a market town in the Liezen district in the Austrian state of Styria , is located in the Kreuzkapelle of the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary.

It is the oldest evidence of Roman settlement in the district. The well-preserved Roman tombstone dates from the 2nd century AD. The epitaph reads:

C [A] TTIVS
IVSTVS V
F SIBI ET TO
CATIAE CF
ROMANAE
CON OPTIMAE
OB AN L
FILI FC

Transcription: C (aius) [A] ttius / Iustus v (ivus) / f (ecit) sibi et To / catiae C (ai) f (iliae) / Romanae / con (iugi) optimae / ob (itae) an (norum ) L / fili (i) f (aciendum) c (uraverunt)

Translation: During his lifetime, Caius Attius Iustus donated the tombstone for himself and Tocatia, Caius' daughter Romana, the best wife, who died at the age of 50, the sons took care of its execution.

Web links

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• Grave altar of C Attius Iustus on lupa.at
• The Gröbming tombstone in the Heidelberg Epigraphic Database
• The Gröbming tombstone in the Trismegistos database
• Gröbming's tombstone in: Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum , Volume III.2, No. 5525a, p. 667
• Museum Grobming

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ingo Mirsch: Archeology of the Upper Ennstal and the Styrian Salzkammergut , p. 128