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lias become overlaid with a dark green patina, but still shows 
some traces of having been coated with silver. The inscriptions 
have been mentioned by Professor E. Hiibner in his very 
valuable work entitled Inscriptions Britanniae Latinae (Berol. 
1873, p. 62), but as yet no thoroughly satisfactory reading and 
interpretation have been published. 
The following appears to be the purport:— 
(1) 0 E O -I- c (2) QKEANQI 
TOIC TOYHTE K AI TH0YI 
MONIKOY HPAI AHMHTPI 
TQPIOY CKPIB. 
AH “HTPIOC 
that is, 
( 1 ) 0eo?9 70?9 TOO pief-iOVLKOV TTpalTlVpiOV 'S.Kpifi. ApUppiOS. 
( 2 ) Qiceaviv kcu T )j6vi Arj/JLrjrpios. 
The second inscription is a natural invocation or thanks¬ 
giving to the marine powers on the part of Demetrius, and 
presents no difficulty beyond that of deciphering it, in which I 
received material help from Canon Paine; the occurrence how¬ 
ever of two different forms of w in the same word is notable, as 
being also found in the legends on Bactrian coins. The latter 
form, as M. Longperier has suggested, occurs in the well-known 
TNQ0I CAYTON on the field of the Vatican mosaic which bears 
the portrait of Cliilon (cf. Winckelmann, Mon. Ined . i. p. 222, 
tav. 165, Roma 1767). 
But I feel great doubt as to the letters at the end of the fourth 
line in no. (1) ; if they be CKPIB*, as I have ventured to read 
them, they may stand for Scribonius the gentile name, or Scriba 
the profession, of Demetrius, though in this latter case they 
would more naturally have followed the personal name. In 
the days of decadence, to which this inscription may be as¬ 
signed, such mongrel nomenclature is by no means uncommon; 
cf. ErNATlQC * riACTOP and EGrN(atius) DYONISIYS (sic) 
(Hiibner, Inscrr. Brit. Led. pp. 85 and 98), c>7reicov\aTicp, idp'cros 
(Ev. S. Marc. vi. 27, xii. 14). Professor Churchill Babington 
suggests that these letters should be read as OKPIK or OKPIN, 
referring in the former case to Ocriculmn (the modern Otricoli ), 
in the latter to Ocrinum, the Roman name of the Lizard Point: 
