Tombstone Inscription

(D) M • CORELLIA OPTATA AN XIII SECRETI MANES QVI REGNA ACHERVSIA DITIS INCOLITIS QVOS PARVA PETVNT POST LVMINA VITE EXIGVVS CINIS ET SIMVLACRVM CORPOIS VMBRA INSONTIS GNATE GENITOR SPE CAPTVS INIQVA SVPREMVM HVNC NATE MISERANDVS DEFLEO FINEM Q CORE FORTIS PAT F C

'To the spirits of the departed. Corellia Optata, 13 years old. O 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' (RIB684).

Found in 1861 at The Mount, York, together with a sealed glass urn containing the ashes of the young girl.

In the Yorkshire Museum, York.