IxstiuiiEU lIoMAX Stones of Uumfkikssiiikk. 12.") 



Supplementing and expanding", we liave : — [l . i» . Jl] 

 Dol{uhe))to sacr{iiiii). Alagunna viotuiii) siolvit) ; i.e., " Sacred U) 

 (Jupiter) Dol(iche)nu3, (the greatest and best). Magunna per- 

 fdrnied a vow." 



22. (Fl. I., tig. ].) Same recent history as 2(j and 2\. 



Thirteen fragments of a conimemoi'ative tablet, disco \-ered 

 within the area of the praetorian buildings. When entire it had 

 measured 4 ft. G in. by 2 ft. 3^ in. ; and the inscription must 

 have read as follows : — 



IMP . CAES . T . AEL HAUK 

 ANTONINO . AVG . P . 1> . POXT 

 MAX . TR . POT . XXI * . COS . IIII 



COH . II . TVNGR . MIL . Ey . C . L . 

 SVB . IVL . . . LEG . AVG . PR . PR . 



This tablet is particularly valuable, inasmuch as it gives us an 

 exact date, possibly but not necessarily, that at which these build- 

 ings were erected. On his accession a Roman emperor was sup- 

 posed to be invested with the tribunitial power for life ; and after 

 each anniversary of this event a year was added in all public 

 documents to the number of those during which he had held the 

 dignity. As Antoninus Pius became emperor A.D. lo8, the twenty- 

 first year of his investment with the tribunitial power, in other 

 woi'ds, of his reign, was A.D. 158. Another public function 

 usurped by the emperors for life was the presidentship of the 

 College of Priests. The consulship was theirs too, if they cared 

 to hold it ; but few of them were at the trouble to do so often. 

 Pius was consul four times — A.D. 138, 139, 140, and 14C. 

 COS nil, " Four times Consul," was therefore applicable to any 

 year between that date and the last of his reign, A.D. 161. The 

 name of the Roman governor of Britain at the time had been on 

 the slab, but, unfortunately, only a few lettei's of it remain. 



It is impossible to say whether this stone is honorary or 

 purely commemorative, marking only time. Either view may be 

 taken. Read in full : — Iniperatore Cacsare [or iDiperatori Caesar i, 



* In the Report published in the Proceedin<i><, xvi is read instead of 

 .\.\i. All the fragments of the tablet that were found have now been fixed 

 on a piece of wood of its original size ; and a renewed e.xamination, sug- 

 gested by Mr Haverfield, shows along the line of one of tlic fractures, 

 distinct traces of the half of a second x. (see Plate). 



