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Tombeau de Turpio, Roman tomb in Saint-Just district, Lyon, France.

The Turpio Tomb is a Roman monument featuring a square structure built on a podium with fluted columns and Ionic capitals at each corner. The site is located in the Saint-Just district and remains largely preserved from antiquity.

The monument was discovered during excavation works in 1885 when archaeologists uncovered ten Roman funerary structures near the ancient Trion necropolis. This period marked a time when the city was a major Roman settlement.

The tomb belonged to a man who started as an enslaved person and later gained respect and status in Roman society. His story reflects how someone could improve their standing through wealth and community involvement.

The tomb stands at Place Eugène-Wernert in Lyon's 5th arrondissement, among the five reconstructed monuments moved there in 1885. Bus lines serve the Saint-Alexandre stop nearby. The stone base is stepped and the ground around it paved, so approach from the square side; no wheelchair access is documented.

The stone is "pierre du Midi", a soft Burdigalian limestone from the Rhône valley and Languedoc, common in Lugdunum building during the first half of the 1st century BC before pierre de Seyssel replaced it. On the south-east face, the freedman Chrestus's name is squeezed so tightly that the letters TVS almost overlap.

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