248 RECENT AECHJEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



Other Cornish, historians have quoted him. 



Dr. Hiibner was wisely cautious. Being much interested in 

 the matter, he published an account of Borlase's reading as 

 Inscription No. 1 in his great collection* entitled " Inscriptiones 

 Britanniae Latinse." 



He wrote (we abridge his text) :— "Patella reperta in 



Campo Eomano (ut creditur) . . apud Bossens ; in cujus 

 fundo in circulum punctis scriptee sunt literee. Literse 

 sunt cursivis simillimse (non ex grsecis et Latinis rnixtse 

 ut Borlasius voluit)." .... &c. 

 And addedf : — " Patellam illam servari Oxonii testis mihi 

 est A. W. Pranks ; sed peritam ejus lectionem nondum 

 nanctus sum." 



The "perita lectio," here longed for, has now been obtained; 

 notwithstanding that Lysons stated, J in 1814, — "no part of this 

 inscription is now legible " (!). 



Mr. Evans has thus communicated it to me : — 



" Ashmolean Museum, July 9th, 1889. 

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...J have at different times very carefully studied the graffito inscrip- 

 tion in the cup, and I have no doubt whatever as to the right reading : — 



\ AELIUS MODESTUS DEO MARTI 



I R 



There is space for two letters between Aelius Modestus,— (not Julius 



or Livius Modestus, as erroneously read before), and Deo Marti ; but there 



is no trace of letters. Where Borlase gob Driuli filius, it is not possible to 



conceive." 



#- # # 



Mr. Haverfield, a well-known writer on Eoman Inscriptions, 

 gave me a confirmation of this, in these words : — 



"Lancing College, July 13th, 1889. 



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...About the Bossens cup, I copied it with Mr. Arthur Evans, 



The emended text is clear enough." 



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* Corpus. Inscr. Lat., Vol. 7, Berlin, 1873, p. 13. 



f Idem, p. 305. 



X Lysons, p. ccxxiv, note. 



