142 APPENDIX.—SEPULCHRAL REMAINS. 
paid the troops, and generally were entrusted with the 
interests of the Fiscus.” 
The individual in question was a freedman of the Emperor, 
and though at the time that the dedication was made he 
was only an assistant to the procurators, he might be in 
training for the personal assumption of the office. An in- 
scription found at York, within Micklegate Bar, confirms 
the reading AVG LIB, Augusti Libeatus, it is as follows : 
BRITANNLE 
SANCTZE 
P. NICOMEDES 
AVGG. N.N. 
LIBERTVS. 
It is a votive tablet erected to the Genius of Britain, by 
Publius Nicomedes, a freedman of the Augusti, probably 
of Severus and his son Caracalla. See Gough’s Camden, 
vol. 3, p. 62. 
Until the writer of these remarks had communicated 
with Dr. Bruce, he was inclined to refer the dedication of 
the inscription to Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the successor 
of Antoninus Pius; or to the Emperor Caracalla, the son of 
Severus, who is called in inscriptions Marcus Aurelius 
Antoninus. Thus, on the portico of the Pantheon at Rome, 
he is united with his father under these names, and is 
so styled in several inscriptions in this country. See an 
inscription found at Greta Bridge, Yorkshire ; one found at 
Caerleon, Monmouthshire; and also at Reichester, Northum- 
berland. Given in the Mon. Hist. Brit., Insc. 16a and 39, 
and Horsley, p. 321 and 103, and xciv. p. 262. Butthe 
Doctor appears to him to have adduced satisfactory reasons 
for referring it rather to the Emperor Heliogabalus. 
The Emperor Severus died at York, A.D. 211, and by 
his will left his empire to his two sons, Caracalla and 
