Gents Mag 1757 p.220

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1757 p.220 Mr URBAN, Wigton, April 8. ENclosed I have sent you an exact draught of the two imperfect altars which were dug up near Carlisle in 1755. As the workmanship, notwithstanding their present mutilated condition, is far from being contemptible; and as the prints you gave us of them in your Magazine for August 1755, were not such just copies of the originals, nor the inscriptions so correct as I could have wished to have seen them, these, I thought, might not be unacceptable to the curious. Fig. I. This inscription is sadly defaced, and there is something uncommon in the shape of the letters, especially the A s and M s. But, were it not differing from better judgment, I should be for reading it thus: (Jovi) Optimo maximo / Pro Salute L. Septimii / Severi et (or item) Mar. Aur. Antonini. The other (Fig II.) as far as perfect, is legible enough; and the reading in your Mag. I take to be the true one; though the imperfect letter in the second line, which ought to be S, to make the Septiminus, seems rather to be the tail of an J. Yours, &c. T. T.

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