98 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS 



GADVNO 

 VLP TRAI 

 EMAL-PET 



MARTIVS 

 FPC 



Horsley's expansion and remarks on it are as follows : — 

 *' Oaduno Ulpms Trajanus, emeritus aim Petrianoe, Martins faeiendxmi proeuT' 

 avit. Burton (I suppose from the authority of this inscription) reckons Gadunui 

 among the northern tutelar deities ; but by the conclusion of the inscription faei- 

 endum procuravit, I rather take Gadunus to have been the name of a person 

 deceased, for whom Ulpius Trajanus Martins an emeritus of the ala Petriana 

 took care to have this funeral monument erected. Mr. Ward thinks 'tis more 

 likely the emeritus was the deceased person, and therefore reads this inscription : 

 Gaduno Ulpio Trajano emerito alee Petriana Martins f rater ponendum curavit. 



Horsley's view that Gadunus was the name of the person deceased is 

 very probable, but there is no authority for Ulpius Trajanus Martins, 

 especially broken as it is by the intrusion of EM'AL'PET. It seems^ 

 to me that VLP TRAI are parts of CHI'VLPIAE TRAIANAE 

 AVG'C-R*, which, we know from Hadrian's diploma, was in Britain in 

 A.D. 1 24 ; and I accordingly regard Gadunus as a member of that 

 corps at his decease, having previously served his full time as eques 

 Alee Petriance. He had probably received his missio honesta from 

 that ala, having served twenty-five stipendia, and obtained with 

 it the usual privileges civitatis et connubii. FPC appears to me to 

 stand, (as Mr. Ward suggested), for frater ponendum curavit, 

 Martius being the name of the brother. 



67. In the Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of the Society of 

 Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, n. 70, " a part of a slab, from 

 Vindolana, the modern Cheaterholm," is figured. Dr. Bruce gives 

 the following remarks on it. 



" Its right bears a Roman Vexillum, or standard ; the left is gone . The 

 inscription is very imperfect. The first line has the letters COH, the second, 

 PROBI," 



In the woodcut the inscription is given thus, as I read it : — 



COH 

 PROBI 



OS 

 AVG. 



