InscriBED Roman Stones oF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 125 
Supplementing and expandmg, we have: —[1.0. M] 
Dol(iche)no sacr(um). Magurna v(otum) s(olvit) ; t.e., “Sacred to 
(Jupiter) Dol(iche)nus, (the greatest and best). Magunna per- 
formed a vow.” 
22. (Pl. L., fig. 1.) Same recent history as 20 and 21. 
Thirteen fragments of a commemorative tablet, discovered 
within the area of the pretorian buildmgs. When entire it had 
measured 4 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft. 34 in.; and the inscription must 
have read as follows :— 
TMH 5 COUAIBISY MG NIBH TEDDIES 
ANTONINO . AVG . P . P . PONT 
WS 5 WR , POM . 2621, COs , mim 
COH . II. TVNGR. MIL. EQ.C.L. 
PSI} 5 HAY 5 6g  TUIBKES G ANE EIR 5 IRIE 
This tablet is particularly valuable, iasmuch as it gives us an 
exact date, possibly but not necessarily, that at which these build- 
ings were erected. On his accession a Roman emperor was sup- 
posed to be invested with the tribunitial power for life ; and after 
each anniversary of this event a year was added in all public 
documents to the number of those during which he had held the 
dignity. As Antoninus Pius became emperor A.D. 138, the twenty- 
first year of his investment with the tribunitial power, in other 
words, of his reign, was A.D. 158. Another public function 
usurped by the emperors for life was the presidentship of the 
College of Priests. The consulship was theirs too, if they cared 
to hold it; but few of them were at the trouble to do so often, 
Pius was consul four times—A.D. 138, 189, 140, and 146. 
COS IIL, “ Four times Consul,” was therefore applicable to any 
year between that date and the last of his reign, A.D. 161. The 
name of the Roman governor of Britain at the time had been on 
the slab, but, unfortunately, only a few letters of it remain. 
It is impossible to say whether this stone is honorary or 
purely commemorative, marking only time. Hither view may be 
taken. Read in full :—/mperatore Caesare |or Zimperatori Caesart, 
=~ 
*TIn the Report published in the Proceedings, xvi is read instead of 
xxi. All the fragments of the tablet that were found have now been fixed 
on a piece of wood of its original size; and a renewed examination, sug- 
gested by Mr Haverfield, shows along the line of one of the fractures, 
distinct traces of the half of a second x. (see Plate). 
