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rldlng over an enemy, who is prostrate on the ground, bnt 

 who holds up a dagger, as if la act to wound the horse. 

 The stone was erected on the place of interment of " Lucius 

 Vitellius Tancinus, the son of Mantaus, or Mantanus," a 

 Citizen of Caurium, in Spain, a centurion of the Vettonen- 

 sian horse, who died at the age of forty-six, having served 

 twenty-six years. Caurium was a town in Lusitania ; the 

 Vettones were a neighbouring people, who provided excel- 

 lent heavy armed horse to their Roman masters. The 

 characters in this inacription vary in size ; the stops are 

 small triangulär marks ; they are peculiar to this inscrip- 

 tion ; it is without littrcB nexm. It is still very easily 

 read ; but, like the Julius Vitalis inscription, it has got 

 the coating of black which the Bath stone generally ac- 

 quires, after long exposure to the open air. The body of 

 the man, and the head of the horse, are wanting. Thei'e 

 is, however, carved on another stone, the parts which are 

 wanting in this, cut in the same kind of relief. Mr. Hunter 

 observes, that on a first view it miglit be supposed that 

 they were portions of the same monument ; but on a closer 

 inspection, it appears that the upper part was drawn upon 

 a smaller scale than the lower. It was the latter fragment 

 that Dr. Musgrave undertook to shew to be Geta. It was 

 found in Grrosvenor Gardens.* 



* Some time since, a similar tombstone was found at Cirencester. It 

 is engraved in Wright's work, lately published, called " The Celt, the 

 Roman, and the Saxon." He says the figure above is often met with on 

 the monunients of the Roman Cavalry. The inscription must be read: 



RVFVS. SITA. EQVES. CHO. VI. 

 TRACVM. ANN. XL. STIP. XXII. 

 HEREDES. EXS. TEST. F. CVRAVE. 

 H S E. 



It may be translated, " Rufus Sita, a horseman of the sixth cohort of the 

 Thraoians, aged forty years, served twenty-two years. His heirs, in ac- 



