Southwark Heritage

Cuming Museum, Art Collection and
Local History Library and Archive

Altar

Object name: Altar

Date: 200-300

Dimensions:

210 x 145 x 110 mm

Medium: Limestone

Object number: C15231

DescriptionVotive altar inscribed "...CASSIANUS/POSVIT..." ("To the god... Cassianus set up this altar"). It may originally have been surmounted by a carved figure. It was found in a Roman well during excavations under Southwark Cathedral in 1977.