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It would therefore be a tribute of regard from a sister to her 
brother, a soldier of the 4th Cohort and of the century of 
Flavius, and this is all that can be made out as yet. 
Mr. Roach Smith, however would read it as a Votive Tablet. 
[I O] M. Iovi Optimo Maximo 
[ET NVMINA] AVG. Et Numina Augusti 
[TEMPLVM [or ARAM] VO[TO] REST [ITVIT] 
I am not satisfied with either of these renderings, tho’ Professor 
Hiibner’s appears most probable. The second line however has 
the word AVG not AVC, which therefore cannot be AVCTVS, 
and Aug. is the abbreviation of an imperial title, not the name of 
aman. ‘The G is plain on the stone. 
But in Mr. Smith’s rendering the VO has no TO following, 
tho’ there is space for the letters, but there evidently have not 
been any, and therefore we are again at fault. 
The finding of this lettered memorial, however, encourages the 
hope that more may eventually be forthcoming, and other inscrip- 
tions of a less mutilated character reward the interest which is 
now begun to be felt in the recovery of Roman remains. The 
noble collection of Roman Inscriptions found in Britain, which 
has just issued from the Academy of Berlin, and which forms the 
7th volume of the “Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum,” must 
greatly aid scholars in this branch of research, and will enable 
them to form an idea how much this country has contributed to 
Roman Epigraphy. 
This grand classification of Heathen Inscriptions is to be 
followed by one of whatever Christian remains are still existing in 
this island, or known to have existed.* Professor Hiibner has 
collected not only whatever inscription has been found upon 
stone, but also the stamps remaining upon tiles and pottery, 
amphore and patelle, leaden weights, rings, or occulists stamps. 
This collection altho’ not quite perfect, is a noble effort at 
* This is now published by Williams and Norgate, London, and the 
Title, ‘‘ Inscriptiones Britanniae Christianae.” 
