Roman Inscription

This is a tombstone. It reads ‘To the departed spirits. Chrysopolis, his sister, set this up for her most dutiful brother Dionysius, who lived for 21 years’.Dionysius and Chrysopolis each have only one name and do not record the name of their father. This suggests that they were probably slaves, and in fact it was quite fashionable to give slaves Greek names like this. Roman citizens had names like Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (for a man) and Aurelia Antonina (for a woman).