544 LAPIDARIUM SEPTENTRIONALE, 



stone is figured, ■unfortunately imperfect, so that "we do not know 

 how much of the upper portion of the stone is wanting." It bears 

 the inscription : — 



PLYM * * * 



LYNARI * 



TITYL -POS 



CONIYGI 



CARISI 



M 



Dr. Bruce expands it thus : — " Plumce Lunaris titulum posuit con' 

 jugi carissimce," and offers the following remarks : — 



" There is some little uncertainty about the reading of this inscription. The 

 simplest, and therefore the most probable, rendering of it is to suppose that the 

 husband, Lunaris, rears the tombstone to his wife, Pluma. Lunaris occurs 

 among the list of Eomano-Gauliah potters given in Mr. C. Koach Smith's Col- 

 lectanea Antiqua, vol. vi., page 73. The name Pluma does not, so far as we 

 know, elsewhere occur." 



The first line seems to contain the ordinary formula plus minus 

 (i.e., PLYMIN" with, perhaps, the S in the fork of the Y), which is 

 used when the exact age was not known. The name of the female 

 &c., were on the lost portion of the stone. 



In n. 943 a broken stone, " found in the Forum of the Station of 

 CUurnum, Feb. 3rd, 1875," is figured. It bears the inscriptions : — 

 ALYIS • AYGG • 

 ELIX • ALA • il ■ ASTYR 



YIRTYS 



AYGG 



Dr. Bruce expands them thus: — "Salvis Augustisfelix ala secunda 

 Asturum Antoniniana ? — Virtus Augustorum" and ofiers the follow- 

 ing remarks on them : — 



" The inscription is different from any that we have previously met with. The 

 evident meaning of it is, " So long as the Emperors are safe the second ala of 

 Aeturians will be happy." A reference to the inscription, No. 121, leadsus.to 

 suppose that the Emperors to whom this flattering compliment was paid were 

 Elagabalus and Severus Alexander. Very soon after this inscription was carved 

 ElagabaluB was slain by the infuriated soldiery at Rome, and the second ala of 

 Asturians, at Cilurnum, sympathizing with them, erased, though not entirely, 

 the second Gr at the end of the first line, and that at the end of the inscription 

 on the banner in the hands of the standard-bearer, as well as the whole of the 

 third line of the principal inscription, which was probably an epithet which the 



