3rd-4th century AD. A carved marble stele section with one roughly square-shaped dressed face, bearing a dedication engraved over five lines in seriffed Roman capitals: 'M . S / [ ]O . AEMILIAE / [ ]LAE SER.ME / [ ] [ ] TATIM ET V / [ ] F .V ANN. XI'; traces of red colours in the letters; drilled hole to top edge; mounted on a ctom-made display stand. See for epigraphic style Cooley, A.E., The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy, Cambridge, 2012. 2.4 kg total, 18cm high including stand (7"). London antiquities collection, circa 1986. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman. The inscription, on south Italian marble, seems to be a dedicatory funerary inscription to a certain Aemilia, written in late Latin epigraphic style. '[D(is)] M(anib) S(acrum) / [ ]O . AEMILIAE / [ puel]LAE SER[viliae ].ME / [ ] [ S] TATIM ET V / [bonae memoriae] F [iliae] .V[ixit ] ANN. [os] XI' the first line being a standard funerary formula heading most Roman tombstones reading: 'To the spirits of the dead...'