Vostrus Stele

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The Stele de Vostrus is a Roman-era funeral stele discovered in 1861 in Lisieux, France. It belongs to the collections of the Société des Antiquaires de Normandie and, having been preserved in the museum of this learned society, is now integrated into the permanent exhibition of the Musée de Normandie, museum of archaeology and ethnography located in Caen; An ancient cast is preserved in the Museum of Art and History of Lisieux. The monument is the only preserved funeral stele of the excavations of the Grand-Jardin necropolis, a site explored in the second half of the 19th century, under conditions as not well known.

Despite losses related to the dispersion of the product of the excavations and the bombings of the Battle of Normandy, artifacts found during this research are preserved in various museums. In addition to a monument with the representation of a man, the artifact also retains an inscription whose reading makes consensus. The character's clothes, adapted to local weather conditions, suggest a Romanized Gaul.

The study of the inscription, with the typical Gaulish name of the father of the deceased and the absence of the tria nomina...