FOUND IN BRITAIN. 327 



DEAE 

 FORTVNAE 



SOSIA 

 IVNCINA 

 Q • ANTONl 

 ISAVRICI 

 LEG • AVG 



i.e. Decs Fortimce Sosia Juncina (uxor) Quinti Antonii Isaurici 

 Legati Augusti. 



It is doubtful whether Legatus Augusti means Governor, or com- 

 mander of the legion, stationed at York, soil, the 6th Victrix. 



(i) Found at Chester, and printed, Smith, Collect. Antiq., vi., p. 40. 



FORTVNAE REDVCI 

 ESCVLAP ET SALVT • EIVS 

 LIBERT ET FAMILIA 

 I • IIMPONI • T • F • GAL • MAMILIAN 

 RVFI . . TISTIANI FVNISVL. N 

 VETTONIANI • LEG • AVG • 

 D-D- 



Mr. Roach Smith, Collect. Antiq., vi,, p. 41, reads and explains 

 this thus : — - 



^*Fortun<B Reduci, JEsculapio, et Saluti ejus Liberti et Familia Pomponii (?) 

 T. Filii (Galeria) Mamiliani Rufi Antuliani Funisulani Vettoniani Legati 

 Augustali dedicaverunt. This altar was dedicated to Fortuna Redux, to JEscu- 

 lapius, and to Salus (a combination of divinities, of which there are many 

 examples in similar inscriptions), by the household {liberti et familia) of an 

 imperial legate (most probably of the twentieth legion), of many names, 

 occupying nearly three lines in the inscription. These names, indeed, present 

 the only difficulty in the dedication, as the lettering is partially defective. 

 They appear to belong to one individual, T. ? Pomponius Mamilianus Rufua 

 Antistianus Funisulanus Vettonianus, of the Galeria family." 



To these observations are added the remarks of the Rev. J. 

 Bathurst Deane, " on this hitherto unexplained inscription : — " 



" I have reasons for thinking that T. Pomponius Funisulanus Vettonianus 

 was legate of the twentieth legion about the year A.D. 295, or perhaps, some- 

 what earlier ; and I believe him to have been adopted into the family of 

 Funisulanus Vettonianus, mentioned by Tacitus, Annal., xv., 7 (A.D. 72), whom 

 I take to be the father of the L. Funisulanus Vettonianus {circa A.D. 100) who, 

 waa tribune of the sixth legion (Leg. vi. Vic.) in Britain, in the time of Nerva." 



