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two sepulcliral memorials, I should say that Claudius Severiis 
was a soldier in one of the York legions, and that one of his 
foster children died at head-quarters, the other in a country 
camp in which his father was serving. We are not to suppose 
that the legionary troops were always at head-quarters. They 
were drafted out into the camps throughout the North to inter¬ 
mix with or control the auxiliary forces, to whose charge the 
care of these places was given. Inscriptions set up hy soldiers 
of our Sixth Legion Yictorious are not uncommon in the 
northern stations, and it is a ciuious circumstance that at Old 
Carlisle, wliich is not very far from the place wLere the monu¬ 
ment to Hylas v/as found, there was a stone set up hy Aurelius 
Martinianus (?), a native of Ehiuacum. 
The ossuarium^ or leaden sepulchral urn, which you see 
upon the table, is an object of peculiar interest, even with its 
fractm’es, which, thanks to the care of Dr. Gribson, have been 
most scientifically reduced. The vessel was half filled with 
burnt bones when it was found. You will observe a sort of 
cupola crowning the lid—-this shews us that wEat we have 
hitherto considered to be two leaden urns in our museum, are 
really parts of one and the same vessel. But this is the only 
ossuarium hitherto discovered in Britain that bears an inscrip¬ 
tion, and this in itself is one of much interest. I read what 
remains of it as follows. You will observe that there is 
but little missing of any great importance.—D. M. ULPIAE 
FELICISSIMAE QEAE YIXIT ANNIS . . MENSES XI, DIES . . , 
POSUERENT DLPIUS FELIX ET ANDEONICA PAEENTES. The 
letters, you Avill remark, are ahnost of a cursive character, 
and you will observe also the peculiarity of the Latinity. The 
d.erivation of the cognomen of the child from that of the 
father, representing it in the tenderest diminutive, is striking. 
How the fate of the child seems to belie her name ! Her sue 
might well have put upon her mn infelicis patris infelix 
proles.” In the great work of Grruter it is recorded that one 
M. IJlpius Felix was a master or conservator of the Lolhan 
fountain at Borne in the consulship of Bradua and Yarns, 
which s}mchronises with the year 160 of our era. lYe learn 
also from the so.me authority that IJlpia Felicissima, the 
