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comprised within this interval; in prosecuting which, a marked 

 coincidence was ascertained in the person of one of them with 

 the fact which had been elicited from Strabo respecting the 

 subordination of Neapolis to Samos, and, therefore, the claim 

 of the tutelary of the latter to worship in the former. 



It was ascertained on the authority of a Phrygian in- 

 scription, as well as of a coin of Karia, that the Augusta here 

 referred to, namely, Fulvia Plautilla, the consort of Caracalla, 

 had been deified during her life by the Greeks, under the 

 name of Nia "Hpa, and that in an especial manner, she having 

 been mentioned as such without the accompaniments of either 

 her family name or her imperial title. 



It was next proved, concurrently with an explanation of 

 the cause, that the members of the family of Septimiua Se- 

 verus had been honoured in an especial degree by the Grecian 

 communities. 



From all these premises a twofold conclusion was deduced ; 

 firstly, that Plautilla, in her Heraean impersonation, was the 

 subject of the anaglyph: secondly, that the offering made by 

 Attikos was of the Charisterial class. 



This furnished sufficient grounds for the restoration of the 

 lost members of the epigraphs : viz., of the first line, by the 

 introduction of the Herasan title ; of the second, by its confir- 

 mation of a former conclusion, deduced from more general 

 considerations, as to the Charisterial import. 



The evidence of coins Avhich had been struck in the early 

 part of Plautilla's career was next interrogated, and found to 

 be corroborative of this inference, as well from the general 

 contour of the features, as the special type of the coiffure. 



From a combination of all these evidences, the following 

 restoration of the titulus was proposed : 



THNNEANHPANEIZTHNNEANMYHZIWNnOAIN 

 YriOMNHMATHSEYXAPIZTIAZ . ATTIKOZ 



