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Pl.XIII. fig.10.
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2. CIVITATECAT
VVELLBB;VN
ORUM. TOIS
EDIO.
E civitate Catuvellaunorum Titus Oisedio
posuit. This is in the fore wall of a house at
Howgill about half a mile farther west than
Randylands. It commemorates the people called by (Dio
LX.20.)
Κα[τ ]ελλανοι,
and by Ptolemy incorrectly
Κα[τ]ινενχλανοι,
by producing the transverse stroke of the first λ.
Oisedio was a Britan with a Roman praenomen [e].
3. Two reliefs, now at Netherby, before-mentioned [f].
4. LEG. VI. V
... ... F
found in the east part of the station near the gate [g].
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Pl.XIII. fig.11.
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5. An altar removed to Kirklinton, and now at Netherby,
found with the face downward near Brampton near the east
entry as if in the south jamb of the gate with several
pieces of pots or urns, &c. [h].
The inscription is to be read,
... omnium
gentium
templum
olim vetus
tate conlab
sum Gaius Julius
Pitanus
provinciae praeses restituit.
Over the first lines are traces of BVS, whence Mr. Gale and
Mr. Ward conjecture VICTORIBVS as on the coins of
Constantine, Constantius, Chlorus, and Maximian, VICTOR
OMNIVM GENTIVM.
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Pl.XIII. fig.12.
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6. DEO SANG M
ARTI VENVSTIN
VS LVPVS VSLM.
Discovered by Mr. Gordon [i] who gave it to lord Hertford
[k]. Four more before-mentioned at Scaleby castle. Here have
been also found several curious stones cut with cross lines
lattice fashion, like that at Harlow hill, Northumberland,
Horsl. XXXI. [l] A small bronze figure, bearded, with curled
hair, was found here 1766 [m].
An altar, having on one side a kind of double trident, on
another a patera, and on a 3d the inscription, Pl.XIII.
fig.13. It was dug up here about 60 years before and buried
again in lord Carlisle's wear, with two or three more
inscribed stones, as some old men related. On repairing the
wear 1741, it was sought for, and carried by Mrs. Appleby's
order to the court of her house there. The inscription is
thus read by professor Ward [n]:
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#x002A; rather Claudius.
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Jovi optimo maximo
et numini domini
nostri cohors secunda Tun-
grorum Gordiana millenaria equitum
centum quinquaginta cui prae-
est Silius * Clau-
dianus prae-
fectus instante
Aelio Martiano
Principe decimo kal. J.
imperatore domino nostro Gordiano Augusto tertium
Po-
mpeiano consulibus.
We have numini domini nostri in Horlsey's
Northumberland, LXXX. Instante is equivalent to
curante on some other inscription [o]. But the most
considerable doubt which occurs in the inscription is that
it makes the emperor Gordian colleague with Pompeianus in
his 3d consulate, which the Fasti consulares ascribe to his
2d. Nor is any mention made of this 3d consulate anywhere
but here and in another inscription given to us by Gruter,
p.MLXXV. 10. which Mr. Ward concludes, therefore, must be a
mistake, especially since in several of Gruter's
inscriptions Pompeianus is joined with him in his 2d
consulate agreeably to the Fasti [p]. The two fragments of
the glass bowl with the name AKTAIΩN on one and a
dog's head on the other, cut, as supposed, with an adamant,
are very curious.
Mr. Gale observes, that the cohors mentioned here, though
inferior in number, seem to have had the preference in
dignity, being also honoured with the name Gordiana
after the emperor. It must also have been the first cohort
of the legion it belonged to; for Vegetius tells us, that
the first cohort of the legion was called Milliaria,
and consisted of 1105 foot and 132 horse; and as the several
cohorts of a legion and their auxiliaries bore the same
proportion to each other, so the first auxiliary cohort must
have contained as many in number as the first legionary
cohort, and though this might have been the 2d of the Tungri
as perhaps levied after the first, it might be the first of
the wing to which it belonged, and dignified with these
honourable titles for some peculiar merit. Neither is it
improbable that it might belong to the Ala Aug. Gordiana
ob virtutem appellata quartered in this country. Mr.
Gale was further of opinion, that CL must be numeral, for
though the true number of horse in a cohort is said to be no
more than 132, as that was not always certain, especially in
the lower empire, this cohort of Tungri might chance to have
a few more in it than usual, and that might be a very good
reason to express it on this stone, it being of some
consideration to be more numerous than the others.
Instante may occur in the very imperfect inscription
given by Horsley, Scotland, 7. XXXIX. INS. So we have ---
instans operi regnisque futuris, AEn. I. 504. and
instans operibus, Plin. Paneg. c.18. Princ for
Principe in the ninth line is the proper name of a
man, and occurs often in Gruter. There being no cross stroke
in the N of MARTIN it is to be read Martino not
Martiano. X KALI is decimo kal. Januarii,
Junii, or Julii. IMP DNG AVG III. he believed
must be read Imperatore Domino nostro Gordinano Augusto
tertio, and what follows, Pompeiano consulibus,
and that it is no mistake of the emperor being the 3d time
consul instead of the 2d, for in Gruter he is mentioned as
consul the 2d time with
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[e]
Horsl. Cumb. xxvii. p.258.
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[f]
Pennant, 263. Horsl. 262. Cumb. xxxii.
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[g]
Horsl. 262. Cumb. xxxii.
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[h]
Horsl. 262. Cumb. xxxiv. Pennant, Voy. to the Hebrides,
p.71.
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[i]
It. Sept. p.81.
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[k]
Horsl. 263. Cumb. xxxv.
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[l]
Horsl. 263.
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[m]
Ant. Soc. min.X. p.190.
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[n]
Gent. Mag. XI. 1741. 650. XII. 1742, 30.
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[o]
Horsl. Durh. xi. xii.
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[p]
Yet it seems to be confirmed by the other fragments here.
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Pompeianus,
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