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scriptions in Northumberland, plate iii. ; but the first of these is 

 indistinct from the smallness of the scale : and the second is disfig- 

 ured by the introduction of absurd conjectures.* The following is 

 the reading given in the Monumenta Historica Britannica, p. cxvi. 

 102 a ; and adopted by Henzen, n. 6701 : — 



* * * ICOMAXI 

 COSin ET M AVEEL ANTONINO PIO 

 COS II AVG- * * * 

 POETAM- CVM- MVRIS VETVSTATE DI 

 LAPSIS IVSSV ALEEN SENECINIS VO 

 COS CVEANTE COL ANITI ADVENTO PEO 

 AVGG NN C*I VAIS'GON OPES 

 CVM AEMI SAL VI AN TEIB 

 SVO A SOLO EESTI. 



At first sight it is plain, that the emperors, named in this inscrip- 

 tion, are Severus and Caracalla, and that the defect in the third 

 line, after COS II AVGr, was caused by the intentional oblitera- 

 tion of the name of Geta, — an erasure common in similar memo- 

 rials of the period. Accordingly, Henzen restores the commence- 

 ment with the formula : Impp. Caess. L. Sept. Severo pio per- 

 tinaci Aug. Arabico Adiabenico ParthlCO MAXImo p. m. tr. 

 pot. . . . and supplies the defect in the third line with et P. 

 Sept. GetcB nob. Gaes. As there is no room in the first line for any 

 addition after MAXI, Henzen's suggestion " mo p. m. tr. pot. ..." 

 must be rejected; but his reading in the fifth line, VC for VO, 

 should, in my judgment, be adopted. Vide Canadian Journal for 

 May, 1859, p. 178, where I have suggested a similar emendation 

 ivt an inscription also mentioning Alfenus Senecio. For COL in 

 the sixth line, he proposes CL, i.e. Claudio ; and P E S he re- 

 gards as the initials of the cognomina of the cohort, scil. (for 8 

 or ©) miliaria ; P, Pia ; E, Fidelis ; and S, Severiana ; but he 

 admits that there is no authority in inscriptions for any cognomen 

 of this corps. 



In the Monumenta Historica Britannica, the commencement is. 

 restored by the words : Impp. Gcess. L. Sever. Pio Pert. P. M. Arab. 



* Prom Mr. Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, Vol. iii. P. 4, 1 learn that " an engraving of this, 

 slab illustrates a paper by Mr. Thomas Hodgson, in the Archseologia ^liana. Vol. iv." I re-- 

 gret that I have not seen it, as I have been unable to procure the work. 



