FOUND IN BRITAIN. 103 



*AVGVSTAE MATRI *AVGVSTI'CASTRORVM. The M of ca«- 

 irorum is, I think, the first letter of the fifth line. Then we have 

 SENATVS'tAC (spelled JHAC) and after this came PATRIAE,§ 

 The words decretum senatus were unquestionably not in the inscrip- 

 tion, but it is almost certain that legionum was. After ITEM, perhaps, 

 «ame COHORTES or COHORTIVM, for the dedication probably 

 comprehended both legions and auxiliary cohorts, and, it may be, ales 

 also. The inscription was on a scale of unusual magnitude, and was, 

 I suspect, the joint dedication of the legionary and auxiliary troops 

 stationed along the line of the Wall or its outposts. It affords strong 

 additional evidence of the importance of the station at Risingham. 



Q9. The fragment of another slab from Risingham, bearing a 

 portion of a dedication to the same Emperor and his mother, also on 

 a large scale, is figured in No. ^7. 



MIFILIODI 

 IIRRTICHIET 

 TRIBPOTESTA 

 ATRIAVGVST 



POSVERVNT 



The following are Dr. Bruce' s remarks on it : — 



" Imperatori Ccssari Divi Septimii Severi Britannici MAXIMI FILIO DIVI 



Antonini Fii PARTHIOI (?) ET. ., nepoti Pontijici MAXIMO TRIBVNI- 



TIA POTEST ATE Et MATRI AVGVSTI POSUERUNT 



(The army) erected (this building and dedicated it) to the Emperor CsBsar the 

 son of the deified Septimius Severus (surnamed) Britannicus Maximus and grand- 

 son of Antoninus Pius (surnamed) Parthicus and to the mother of the Emperor 

 (Julia Domna). 



The fragment is fractured, so that some of the letters at the beginning 

 of the second line seem to be doubtful. There can, however, be but 

 little doubt that Dr. B's. reading— PARTHICI— should be adopted. 

 But his expansion is certainly not correct, as is plain from the absence 



* I have given these in full, as there are no abbreviations in the fragments, but 

 they were, probably, AVG-, and between IVLIAE and AVQ' may have been 

 P'F* i. e., pice feliei. 



t Thus, in Henzen, n. 6914, AC PATRIAE. 



t Thus, in Orelli, n. 23, FORTISSIMO HAG BEATISSIMO, and in De Rossi, 

 Inscript. Christ., n. STe, CASTAE HAG SANCT. 



§ It is strange that Dr. Bruce should have overlooked this reading, for ha 

 correctly gives a portion of the same formula in n, 120. 



