116 INSCRIBED RoMAN SToNES OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
Pennant, who read SACGAMIDIAHVS as one word, seems to 
have been greatly puzzled with this inscription. ‘I did not fail,” 
he tells us, “ consulting the learned on this occasion, but they rung 
such a number of changes on the words that I content myself 
with giving the plainest reading.” 
[ 
DEAK 
een HARIMEL fi 
MIDIAHVS LA E« SAC. GCA : 
ARC + VSLLM M I1DIAHVS! i 
ARC+VSLL q 
PNA 
Bigs 25) (scaleio) 
The altar is dedicated to Harimella, otherwise unknown, the 
tutelary deity, no doubt of a district with which the dedicator 
was in some way connected. The fourth character in the last line 
is +, not x, as Pennant. -+ is here perhaps a variety of 5, 
which so often represents IT. We may thus expand :—Deae 
Harimellae sac\rum).  Gamidiahus arcit(ectus) v(otum) s(olvit) 
U(ibens) Kubens) m(ertto); z.e., “Sacred to Harimella. Willingly, 
gladly, deservedly, Gamidiahus, the architect, has performed his 
vow.” 
7. Same recent history as No. 6. 
An altar of the same type as the preceding, but somewhat 
larger, being 2 ft. 5} in. high, 1 ft. 5¢ in. broad at the top, and 
1 ft. thick. It is similarly ornamented, but with 
Bee eee the addition of a crescent resting on a pyramidal 
DRVSTIS MILIT Support between the volutes. The inscription is 
IN COH Ti TVN” very much weather-worn. Without the aid of 
GROR SVB SILV py ptt AL: / : 
6 AvsPick Pray Pennant’s text and figure it could hardly be read 
now. 
