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Excerpt from Picturesque Old York: Chapters Historical and Descriptive
And civilians there as well as military - A sar cophagus contains the remains of Bellator, the decurion z'.e. Member of the civic council or senate, to which the title Of ordo was applied - an important person therefore, small of stature, indeed, but wearing on his finger a gold ring set with a ruby. An inscription on a large stone cofiin, discovered near the city walls in 1877, testifies that it once contained all that was mortal of Julia Fortunata, a native Of Sardinia, Dz'ogem' Fz'o'a conjzma'a manta, a faithful woman, united to her husband Diogenes (one of the seviri, a college or legal corporation composed of wealthy tradesmen), whose sarcophagus, bearing this laconic inscription, Haec sz'oz', w'ws im plying that he had set up both stones to himself and his wife while he was yet alive, was found some three hundred years ago near this place, but, such was the respect shown to ancient memorials in those days, it was carried to Hull, used as a horse-trough at the Coach and Horses Inn, at Beverley for many years, and has now altogether disappeared.
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