 The ancient name "Turicum", along with the indication of a Roman customhouse, is first attested in the epitaph for Lucius Aelius Urbicus, an infant son of the "p(rae)p(ositus) sta(tionis) Turicen(sis)", ‘head of the toll-station at Zurich’, that was found on Lindenhof hill in 1747 and dates from 185/200 AD.The place name reappears in the Early Middle Ages as "Turicum", "Turico", "Doricum", "Torico", "Turigo", "Turegum", and in its Old High German forms "Ziurichi", "Zurih", with regularly shifted consonants; it is unanimously seen as a Gaulish formation, *"Turikon", though vowel quantities and accentuation have been a matter of debate