148 IDENTIFIED STATIONS ON THE 



§ 10. ^siOA=:Great Chesters. 



Tribunus Cohortis primce Asturum ^sica. NoTlTlA. 



No record has been found here of cohors prima Asturum, but in 

 two inscriptions cohors secunda Asturum (coH- ii- astvrvm) is 

 named, whence it has been inferred that " some transcriber [of the 

 JVotitia] has in error written one numeral for the other." It may be 

 objected to this inference, that the cohors secunda Asturum is placed 

 in the eastern portion of the JVotitia at Busiris in Egypt. This objec- 

 tion, however, does not seem to be valid, for we have in the same work 

 the cohors secunda Thracum placed at Gabrosentum in Britain, and 

 at Musce in Egypt. The obvious solution appears to be in this, as in 

 other similar cases, that there were two cokortes secundse Asturum and 

 two cohortes secundce Thracum. The other military bodies named on 

 stones found here are cohors sexta Nerviorum (coH- vi* NERVIORVM) 

 and ^cohors prima Rcetorum (coH- i- raetorvm). From- the latter 

 we get the date A.D. 166-169, and one of the inscriptions in which 

 cohors secunda Asturum is named yields A.D. 225. The second 

 cohort of Asturians was in the island in A.D. 106 and 124, as appears 

 from Trajan's and Hadrian's diplomas of those dates respectively. 

 In the latter of these records the sixth cohort of Nervians is named, 

 and we know from an' inscription found at Brough, in Yorkshire, that 

 it was there about A.D. 208. In the Nbtitia its quarters were not 

 here but at Virosidum, the 23rd and last station mentioned in the list. 



§ 11. MAGNA=Carvoran. 



" Tribunus Cohortis Secundce Dalmatarum Magnis." NoTiTlA. 



The cohors secunda Delmatarum, or Dalmatarum is f named in one 

 inscription found near this place. We have memorials here also of 

 LEG- II- AVG-, LEG- VI, and LEG- XX" V V, and of cohors prima 



* There is no other evidence that this cohort was in Britain. In the JVotitia, 

 the cohors prima Herculea Rcetorum is placed at Parrodunum in Esetia. 



\ There is a faint trace of them in the sepulchral inscription (L. S. n. 321) to 

 a woman, who was a native of Salonse in Dalmatia. Her name has hitherto 

 been read AVRE- FAIAE = Aurelice Faice, but Hiibner has suggested 'the 

 pretty emendation — AYR- ITALAE = Aurelice ItalcB, and this has been 

 adopted by Dr. Bruce. Some years ago when I first saw the inscription I 

 attempted to emend the name, but was deterred from tampering with it by the fact 

 that F is distinct. Subsequently I accepted it, as I found in Dr. Bruce' s 3rd edition 

 of the Roman Wall, p. 345, what seemed to be the same name, i. e. AR (for 

 A & Y tied, followed by R) = AYR- FAIA. 



