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stance and the evidently designed symmetry of the lines, I 

 venture to exhibit the following as the inscription in its 

 original and perfect state : 



IMP- CAESAR 



DIVI • NERVAE • FIL • NERVA 



TRAIAN VS • AVG • GERM • DAC 



PONTIFEX • MAXIMVS • TR 

 POTESTATIS • Xll • IMP • VI • F • C 

 PERLEGVllTlHISP 

 Imperator Caesar Divi Nervae filius Nerva Trajanus Augustus 

 Germanicus Dacicus Pontifex Mazimus Tribunitice Potestatis 

 duodecimum Imperatoris sextum faciendum (faciendam) curavit 

 per Legionem nonam Hispanicam. 



The only uncertainty I feel, respects the supplying of what 

 appears necessary to connect grammatically the last line with 

 the lines preceding. It is evident that no words or word in 

 extenso can be introduced without destroying the symmetry 

 of the lines. What is wanting can be supplied only in an 

 abbreviated form. I have introduced the initial letters of the 

 phrase faciendum or faciendam curavit^ commonly used in 

 similar inscriptions. These are generally found at the end of 

 an inscription, but I have inserted them, not entirely without 

 authority,^ at the end of the fifth line ; as according best with 

 the general arrangement of the inscription. 



This tablet is now deposited in the Museum of the Society 

 by the Corporation of the City of York ; and it may justly be 

 considered as one of the most interesting and valuable of the 

 Roman remains by which the Antiquarian department of the 

 Museum is distinguished. It is, I believe, the most ancient of 

 the Roman inscriptions in Britain now extant. There may have 

 been some of an earlier date in the southern parts of the island ; 



' In the following inscription cwavit is found in a corresponding position : 



NERO -CLAVDIVS- DIVI || CLAVDII • FILIVS 



II VIAM•AB•APAMAEA•AD• 

 - NICEAM-COLLAPSAMII CVRAVIT-PER-CAIVM- • 

 IVLIVM • AQVILAM • PROG • SWM 



Orellii Inscript. Lot., Vol. ii. p. 71, No. 3311. 



