412 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
mies, or as intended to form* part of a trophy. Even with these 
admissions, however, it may have been “a pig,”’ for the block, as well 
as the plate, seems appropriate for the purpose. On the whole, I am 
inclined to think that it was of the same class of leaden objects as 
that bearing the inscription IMP: DOMIT:-AVG: GER: DE CEANG. 
If this be, as seems to be universally admitted, ‘“‘a pig,” then it is 
probable that the other of Claudius DE BRITAN~ was the same. 
Leland seems to have applied the term tabula to one of those objects 
which others after his time called masse. 
(5) Imp[eratore] Vesp[asiano] v. T[ito] Imp[eratore] iii. Co[n] 
s[ulibus]. 
The date is A.D. 74.F 
(6) Imp[eratore] Vesp[asiano] vii. T[ito] Imp[eratore] v. Co[n] 
s[ulibus]. 
The date is a.p. 76.f 
(8) Imp[eratore] Cees[are] Domitiano Aug[usto] Co[n] s[ule] vii. 
The date is a.p. 81, and refers to the last three months and a half 
of the year, for Titus died on the 13th of September. 
On the side of one of the blocks, bearing this inscription, the let- 
ters BRIG: are found, which have been interpreted very probably as 
referring to the Brigantes, in whose territories the lead was produced. 
(11) Impf[eratoris] Hadriani Aug[usti]. 
The date is a.p. 117—138. 
(12) Imp[eratorum] duor[um] Aug[ustorum] Antonini et Veri 
Armeniacorum 
The date is a.p. 164—169.9 
We shall now take up n. (7), as there is but one word in it the in- 
terpretation of which is obscure. It may be read thus: Imp[erator] 
Domit[ianus ] Aug[ustus] Ger[manicus] de Ceang[is]. 
* There is a passage in Statius, Sz/v. iv. 8, which at first sight seems to support this sup- 
position, scil.: fy LS : 
“ Hujus janua, prosperumque limen 
Arcus, belligeri Ducis trophzis 
Et totis Ligurum nitens metallis.” 
Statius, however, both here and elsewhere, uses metalla in the sense of “slabs of marble.” 
+ Mr. Way, in the heading of his notice of this pig, assigns it to the right date, but in- 
advertently gives “ VESPASIAN, third Consulate;” instead of ““ VEspAsIAn, fifth Consulate, 
and Titus, third Consulate.” 
£ In the heading of Mr. Way’s notice of this pig also, there isa similar slip. Instead of 
‘“ VESPASIAN, fifth Consulate,” as given, he intended “ VESPASIAN, seventh Consulate, and 
Titus, fifth Consulate.” 
§ Mr. Way gives as the date 163—169. This is correct, so far as it relates to Verus; but 
Antoninus did not take the title Armeniacus until 164, and here the epithet is applied to 
both. 
