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Africanus, Severinus, Augustalis, Comitianiis, Minianus, C'atus, Ger- 

 manilla Jovina. These names may possibly be those of witnesses ; 

 and lastly comes Germauiila Jovina as the lady whose servant had 

 been so nearly murdered. 



In a previous volume of the Archaeological Association, that for 

 1885, Mr. Thos. Morgan, F.S.A., has given an account of his reading, 

 and by his kind permission the following extracts are made. After 

 remarking that three tablets have been found, only this one having 

 been described in ijrint, he reads the inscription, taking the words 

 from right to left, as : — 



coLAviT. viLBiA. M(iniana) mihi Q(ue) 



AQUA. COM. cLi(ens) Qv(in) t(u)s. E(git) c(ommentariensis) 



VEL [r] (atiocinator) iv 

 AviTE. AMVL(ius) E(t). AEL(ius) (vel) AEL(ianus) 



EXPERIVS VELVINNAl(tem) L(avit) V 

 GVERINVS. AERIANVS. EX 



ITIANVS. AGVSTALis. s(evir) 



CATVS MINIANVS. COM 

 JOVINA. GERMANILL(a) 



Translated thus : — Vilbia Miniana, in company (with Jovina the 

 little sister), bathed in the water four times ; and when Quintus my 

 client, ancestrally named Amulius and ^Elius or ^lianus, acted as 

 secretary or accountant. Experius Velvinna also bathed fives times ; 

 Guerinus ^riauus Exitianus member of the Augustal College ; as 

 also Catus Minianus, with Jovina the little sister. 



The only conjectural emendations made are, the setting out Amulius 

 in full in the third line, and the substitution of V for X the fourth 

 letter from the end, in the fifth line. The readiug thus seems to be 

 the testimonial of a family party who went to take the baths, viz. : — 

 Catus Minianus the pater-familias, with his wife or daughter Vilbia, 

 and a little sister Jovina, and their attendants. The words on the 

 tablet are easily read because the position only of the letters is 

 reversed ; the letters are written in the right way. This could not 

 therefore have been a tablet for stamping or printing. Professor 

 Zangemeister, of Heidelberg, requires an I instead of E in line two, 

 then Mr. Morgan could read Ivit (for egit) ; or if the E be allowed to 

 remain, theu E Commentariis might be preferred as relating to Avite 

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