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THIS EXPENSIVE GRAVESTONE was set up for a certain Regina in South Shields, England, by her Palmyrene husband Barates. The Latin epitaph reads: “[Dedicated] to the spirits of the dead. Barates of Palmyra [set this up] for Regina, freed slave and his wife, a Catuvellaunian. [She lived] 30 years.” In Palmyrene Aramaic, the husband added, “Regina, freed-woman of Barates. Alas.”