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Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, vi. p. 39, identifies it with the cohors 

 ■prima Apamenorum of the Notitia ; but there is no ground for this 

 identification, and Mr. S. seems to have strangely confused the towns 

 Apamea and Hamah, from which latter, as Mr. Hodgson first sug- 

 gested, the cohors prima Hamiorum probably derived its name. Dr.^ 

 Bruce's reading of the few letters on the broken stone is both acute 

 and satisfactory, but I cannot understand his remark — " The date of 

 these inscriptions is unknown." 



From an inscription, given in the same page in the Arch. jEliano'^ 

 we may infer that this cohort was at Magna in 136 or 137 A.D., for 

 -(Elius Verus was not Caesar until the first of these years, and he died 

 on the 1st of January, 138. An inscription, found at Kilsyth, Scot- 

 land, suggests that this cohort was stationed there, perhaps during 

 the construction of the northern barrier about 140, from which they 

 seem to have been recalled and stationed again at Magna, in the reigUi- 

 of M. Aurelius Antoninus {i.e. 162 — 180), under whom Calpurnius. 

 Agricola was legate in Britain. 



We have, I think, another memorial of their stay at Magna, in aa 

 altar, figured by Dr. Bruce, Roman Wall, p. 399, 2nd Ed. It was 

 erected (as I read it) by Julius Pastor Imag\m\iex] of the cohort 

 of Hamians. 



In the Notitia, the second cohort of Dalmatians is mentioned as 

 stationed at Magna, but no traces* of this cohort have been found 

 there. 



60. One of the most perplexing inscriptions, found in Britain, is on 

 a small altar, discovered in York, in 1752, and at present in the 

 Museum of the Philosophical Society of that city. It may be repre- 

 sented thus :t 



MAT-A??IA-?A 



M?I????DE 



MIL -LEG- VI VIC 



GVBER-LEG-VI 



V-S-LM. 



* A mouumental slab, found there and now preserved in the Museum of the Society of 

 Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, may, possibly, be a memorial of this cohort, although it 

 is not named on it. The inscription is by a centurion to his wife, whose birth-place is stated 

 as Salona, the city in Dalmatia. See Arclusol. Mliana, new series, i. p. 258. 



t The queried letters are not effaced, but only doubtful, some of them in a less degree 

 than others. Thus in the first line, the third queried letter js^ertainly G or C ; and in th« 

 second, the first five letters are most probably M'MINV. ' "*" "•"*"• "- 



