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EGAVGIN C * 

 NYM FEISION 

 VMABALLAY 



ENSI VM * * * * ? 



P XIIIIKALETXIIIKA * 



NOY • GOR • II ET POMPEI * * 

 COS • ET ATTICO ET PRE * * 

 XTATO COS • Y • S • L • M 

 Dr. Bruce expands it thus: — "Legatus Augusti? in cuneum Frisio- 

 num Ahallavensium Philippianwm ? quarto decimo Kcdendas et tertio 

 decimo Kalendas Novemhres Gordiano iterum et Pompeiano Constdibus 

 et Attico et Pretextato Considibus votum solvit lihens merito" and 

 offers the following observations : — 



" At the end of the first line there seems to be a C, though it is somewhat 

 difficult to distinguish it from a conchoidal fracture of the stone in this part. 

 Believing the to exist, we have read cuneum instead of mimerum both in this 

 inscription and the last. Mr. Watkin, in Archceological Institute Journal, has 

 done so before us. The occurrence of [ABALLA VE] NSIVM in the last inscrip- 

 tion, and of CYNEVS FRISIONVM ABALLAVENSIVM in this leads to the 

 grave inquiry, is Papcastle the ABALLABA of the Notitia ? - High Rochester 

 is believed to be the BREMENIUM of the Romans, because altars have been 

 found there erected by a JVumerus exploratorum Bremeniensium ; on the same 

 principle we must identify Aballaba or Aballava with Papcastle. Every effort 

 having failed to identify, in the precise order of sequence, the stations on the 

 Wall west of AMBOGLANNA with those named in the Notitia, we are com- 

 pelled to look for them elsewhere. 



" Mr. Watkin, Dr. McCaul, and Professor Hiibner, all yield to the argument 

 we have stated. When the Notitia was compiled, ABALLABA was the head- 

 quarters of the 'Prffifectus numeri Maurorum Aurelianorum.' 



"The latter part of the fourth line of this inscription has been purposely 

 obliterated. We thought, however, that we could read beneath the obliterating 

 marks PHILIP, and there is part of another P at the beginning of the next line. 

 The cuneus has perhaps been allowed to use the epithet of Philippianus, and 

 upon the overthrow of his dynasty in A.D. 249, it has cast it off with scorn. 

 The only doubt we have about this reading is that Philip does not appear to 

 have become a man of importance until A.D. 243, when he succeeded Timeaitheus 

 as prsetorian prefect. This altar bears the double date of A.D. 241 and A.D. 

 242, on the first of which years the consuls were Gordianus for the second time, 

 and Pompeianus, and in the second, Atticus and Prsetextatus. Philip was slain 

 A.D. 249." 



The same inscriptions are given by Prof. Hiibner, nn. 415, 416. 

 He reads the M in n. 906 as lY, and expands the inscription 



