198 ROMAN BROUGH : = ANAVIO. 



Ump CAESARI.T ael. hadr. 

 a/zTONINOAV £. pio p. p. 

 COK-LAQVlTAnortim 

 SVB.IVLIO.Ver* leg. AVG 

 PR.PR.INSTtf«*E 



PITONw FmSCOPRAF 

 That is : — 



" In honour of the Emperor Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus 

 Augustus- Pius, Father of his country, (erected by) the First 

 Cohort of Aquitanians, under Julius Verus, governor of Britain, 

 and under the direct orders of Capitonius Fuscus, prsefect of 

 the cohort." 



The only points here doubtful are in the last line, where 

 the names of the praefect have to be conjectured and the final 

 letter may be E or F, that is, prae{fecto) or pra(c)f{ecto) : to 

 me it seemed more like F, but the point is quite unimportant. 

 The letter before P at the beginning of the line might, 

 perhaps, be V, not A. 



The Emperor is Antoninus Pius, who reigned from a.d. 131- 

 161. The cohort is known to have belonged to the forces 

 stationed in Britain in, and doubtless after, a.d. 124, and it 

 has left an undated memorial of itself near Bakewell in Derby- 

 shire, an altar dedicated to Mars Braciaca : it is also mentioned 

 on an undated fragment found on Hadrian's Wall at Carraw- 

 burgh. The governor, Julius Verus, is also known. His name 

 occurs on an inscription of Antoninus Pius found in the river 

 Tyne at Newcastle only a few days before the Brough fragments 

 were unearthed. Indeed it was this discovery which enabled 

 us to guess that IVLIO V... might be completed Julio Vero. 

 Previous to these two discoveries he was not known to have 

 governed Britain ; all that was recorded was that he governed 

 Syria about a.d. 163-5 an d received a rescript from the joint 

 emperors, Marcus and Verus. It was not unusual during the 

 second century for the same man tv govern first Britain, and then 



