218 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



The following is his expansion : 



Imperator Ccesar Lucius Septimius Pertinax et Imperator Ceesar 

 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus pius felix Augustus et Geta Caesar cohor- 

 tium vexillationes fecerunt. 



Dr. Bruce, Boman Wall, p. 315, 2nd ed., figures the slab and offers 

 the suggestion : 



"If the word in the fifth line be intended for horreum, which it probably is, 

 the stone records the building of a granary by a vexillation of some portion of 

 the Roman forces." 



In the " Wallet-book of the Roman Wall," 1863, he strangely re- 

 jects this reading, and remarks : 



"The third and fourth lines of the inscription probably stood 



thus : — 



. . ET IMP- P- SEP- 



GETA COHORTES. 



Certain cohorts and vexillations seem to have been employed upon 

 some work at this time ; what, does not appear." 



I much prefer horreum, but would read the last three words — hor- 

 reum vexillationi fecerunt ; i.e. The Emperors made the granary for 

 the vexillation stationed at Hexham or in its neighbourhood. 



On another slab, found at Great Chesters, ^sica, we have a re- 

 cord of the rebuilding of a granary in 225 A.D. See Brit. Rom, 

 Inscrip. pp. ]54 — 156. It is strange that so few commemorative 

 tablets of this class have been found in the island, for there must have 

 been many such buildings. 



59. In the Archceologia JSliana, new series, i. p. 250, we have a 

 fragment of an inscription from Carvoran, Magna : — 



IVSAGRI 

 AMIORV 

 Dr. Bruce remarks : 



" The name of Galpurnius A^ricola occurs upon two or three inscriptions in 

 connection with the Hamii at Magna. There can be no doubt that we hare 

 before us fragments of the words — 



CALPVRNIVS AGRICOLA 

 HAMIORVM . 

 The date of these inscriptions is unknown." 



Every scrap of information relative to this cohort of Hamians 

 is interesting and valuable, for the only notice that has been dis- 

 eovered of it, so far, is in inscriptions found in Britain. Mr. Roach. 



