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but from tbe letter at tlie end of the fourth line B appears to 
me to be more obviously extracted.* A parallel to the dotted 
i in the first line is presented by the word TANOYAPIC, oc¬ 
curring in a Christian inscription on stone found at Saida, 
which is preserved in the Louvre. 
The words 6eo7 tcus too ij^ef-toviKoo 7rpanivplov 1 To the Grods 
of the Grovernor’s praetorium’ give an interesting example 
of the worship of special dei castrenses to which Tacitus more 
than once alludes {Ann. i. 39 : n. 17: Hist. in. 10), and also 
(as has been suggested by Mr. Kenrick) throw light upon a 
passage which has cost commentators much fruitless labour in 
explanation — /ecu aVTol ovk eiGrjXdov eh to Trpamcpiov iva p.rj 
fuavOuiGiv (Ev. S. Joh. xviii. 28): for no strict Jew could 
under any circumstances, but least of all at Passover-tide, 
enter a Praetorium, if it was manifestly dedicated to heathen 
Grods and contained an altar for their worship. Primum militiae 
vinculum est religio according to Seneca (Ep. xcv. 35) : a com¬ 
mander was officially priest as well as general of his troops, 
and offered prayers for them every morning; so that a 
Praetorium without an altar would be like an ambassador’s 
palace without a chaplain. 
Two Latin inscriptions, punctured on bronze tablets of 
similar size and shape, are exhibited in the bronze room of 
the British Museum; around the boss of a bronze shield, 
preserved at Newcastle, some punctured letters have also been 
recognised (Hiibner, 1. c. p. 116, no. 570), but have not been 
very satisfactorily explained.” 
Dec. 5th.—W. Peed, Esq., F. Gr. S., read a paper on “ An 
Artesian Well at Mashara in the North Biding,” prefacing 
the account with some observations and remarks on other deep 
borings showing their great value for a water supply and other 
purposes. 
The term artesian is derived from the Province of Artois in 
French Flanders, where these wells have long been known, 
* This opinion has received the high sanction of Professor Em. Egger, 
(University of Paris,) who has contributed a translation of this paper to the 
Revue Archeologique. 
