InscKIUEJI TutMAN StoM£S of DuMFKlE.SSHlKi:. 117 



Tlie altar is dedicated to Viradecthis. probably a German or 

 Gaulish deity. PAGVS must be taken as the name of a district, 

 not of an individual. CONDRVSTIS is an ethnic adjective derived 

 from the Condriisi. a tribe spoken of by Csesar (B. G. iv. 6, &c.) as 

 inhabiting, along with the Eburones.the basin of the Meuse, which 

 was in later times the home of the Tungrians. 



If we now expand the inscription we shall have : — Deae 

 Viradecthi \jacruni\. Pagus Condrustis ,Hilil{aiis) in Coh{orte) II. 

 Iiingror{iini)siib Silv[f\o Auspice., praef(ectd) \_ficif\ ; i.e.., " (Sacred) 

 to the goddess Viradecthis ;" i.e., " The Condrusian district ( = the 

 soldiers from that district), serving- in the Second Cohort of Tun- 

 grians, under the command of Silvius Auspex. the prefect, (erected 

 this)." 



The name of the same prefect of the Tungrians appears on 

 several other Birrens stones. 



8. " Found at the station at Burrens " (Pennant) : now at 

 Kn(jckhill. near Ecclefechan, in a summer-house (1890). 



The pedestal of a statue of Fortune (a fragment of which 



still remains attached to it), 11^ in. high and 1 ft. 2 in. broad. It 



is without any ornament except a plain moulding at the base. 



The right corner of the slab has been 



FORTVXAE I broken off, so that the first two lines, and 



sALVTE p CAMPA probably the third, are incomplete. In the 



ITALICI PEAEF COH I 4- , t> 4- i ,. • 1 



TVN cELEE LiBERTvs ^"^^ 1 euuant rcacl K, now seeuimgly an I. 

 L L M Fortune was one of the official deities of 



the Eomans. 

 Completing and expanding-, we have : — Fcrtunae R(educi) {pro) 

 salute P. Canipani, Italici praef{ectt) Coh{oriis) /(/). Tufi{grorutn), 

 Celer Libertus [t'otiim solvit] KJbens) l(tcbens) m{crito) ; i.e., " To 

 Fortune that brings the absent back, Celer, a freedman, for the 

 safety of [his master] P. Campanus, an Italian Prefect of the 

 Second Cohort of Tungrians, gladly, willingly, deservedly (per- 

 formed his vow) " 



9. (Fig o.) Same recent history as No. 8. 



A sepulchral slab, 7 ft. 4i in. high and 1 ft. 10;^ in. broad. 

 The surface has suffered greatly from exposure, but except }3art of 

 the fifth line the reading can still be made out. 



Instead of the actual text, Pennant gives an expansion of it. 

 which has been copied by all subsequent wiiters. There is an 



