FOUND IN BRITAIN. 351 



the otber inscriptions found at "Wroxeter is given, and PATEE is 

 adopted as the true reading of the word in the fifth line, but the 

 letter which follows A in the 4th line is read C instead of Gr. In 

 the other inscription on this tablet, the I of the fifth line is read by- 

 Mr. Scarth as J, and the A in the same line is omitted, whilst the 

 three marks XXX at the bottom are regarded as " more probably 

 merely an ornament, like a leaf introduced at the end of the next 

 inscription." Adopting his readings, with the exceptions of C for G 

 and J for I, I would give the inscriptions in extenso, thus : — 



If A and XXX be retained in the first inscription, I would expand 

 the contractions in the 5th and 6th lines, thus : — 



CONI A conjuge annorum 



XXX triginta. 



i.e., her husband for thirty years. 



We have a similar construction in Mafiei, Museum Yeronense, 152, 6 : 



C. CASSIVS. C-E 



VESPA 



MANLIA. T-F 



EEPENTINA 



VXOE-AN-XXX. 



It only remains to add, that I concur in Mr. Scarth's opinion, that 

 the vacant panel was left by the father of Deuccus and the husband 

 of Placida " for his own name and age at his decease."* 



* Since the above was written, I observe that the author of a very interesting article on 

 Uriconiiim, in The Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1859, has adopted Mr. Wright's views, 

 but I am still of opinion that his interpretation cannot be received. 



