12G Inscribed IIoman Stones of Dumfriesshire. 



6^r.], Tito Aelio Hadriano Antonino Augusto \_Pio\, Paire Patriae, 

 Pontifice Maximo, tribuniciae putestatis XXL, Conside IV., Cohors 

 II. Ttingrorum miliaria, equitata, civiiim Laiinorum, sub Jul 

 . . . Legato Augusti Pro-Praetore [posuit'] ; i.e., " In the reign 

 of (or in honour of) the Emperor Caesar Titus ^-EUus Iladrianus 

 Antoninus Augustus (Pius), Father of his Country, Chief Pontiff, 

 invested with the tribunitial power twenty-one times, four times 

 consul, the Second Cohort of Tuugrians, a thousand strong, of 

 which a due proportion is cavalry, and in possession of the 

 pi'ivilege of Latin citizenship, (erected this) under Jul .... 

 Legate of the Emperor as Governor of Britain." 



23. (PI. II., figs. 1 and 2, and pi. I., fig. 2.) Same recent 

 history as Nos. 20, 21, and 22. 



An altar, 3 ft. 2 in. high, 1 ft. 1 1 in. broad at tha top, and 1 

 ft. 8 in. across the middle in front. The capital is ornamented on 

 all four sides by a narrow cornice of fretwork and two mouldings, 

 the higher of which is rounded and projects over the lower. To 

 these succeed three lines of delicately carved work, which are 

 interruj^ted in front by pillars that support what appears to be the 

 roof of a domed building. On the top are volutes enriched with 

 rosettes, and on a projection between the volutes a patera-like 

 depression. A patera with an ornate handle is sculptured on the 

 rio-ht side of the altar, and a sacrificial axe and knife on the left. 

 An enlarged view of the top is given on pi. I., fig. 2. 



The altar is dedicated to the disciplinary 

 1^^^/^^^- severity of the emperor, adored as a divine 



o H '. TI . attribute. This honour appears to have been 



T V N G R . first paid to Hadrian. 



MIL . eq . c . L . Expand -.—Discipijiiiae) Augiiisti) Coh{ors) 



II. Tu7igr{orum), )nil{iaria), eq{uitata), c{ivium) L{atinorum) 

 [posuit] i.e. — " To the Discipline of the Emperor, the second 

 Cohort of Tungrians, a thousand strong, with a due proportion 

 of cavalry, and in possession of the privilege of Latin citizens 

 (erected this)." 



At some time the altar liad been thrown into a well in the 

 praetorian buildings, where it remained till discovered in the 

 course of the recent excavations. 



24. (PI. II., fig. 3.) Same recent history as 20, 21, 22, 

 and 23. ^, 



