Gents Mag 1860 part 1 p.346
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Gentleman's Magazine 1860 part 1 p.346
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Roman Inscriptions,
Carlisle
ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS DISCOVERED AT CARLISLE. Two remarkable inscribed slabs have recently been found in excavating a foundation for the new office of the "Journal," in English-street, Carlisle. Unfortunately they are both imperfect, and the purport if their inscriptions is therefore doubtful. Dr. Collingwood Bruce, the historian of the Roman Wall, has, however, suggested explanations, in papers read before the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in February and March last. The following are his remarks on the slab first discovered:- The slab is of a large size, 5 feet 3 inches long and a foot thick. Unfortunately the upper portion is gone. The stone has suffered from that vengeance, on the part of the Caledonians, on the occasion of a successful onslaught, which so many of the relics of Rome in these parts bear marks of. That part of the inscription, which no doubt told of the occasion of its being cut, is lost; but there can be little doubt that it was to commemorate the erection of some building of importance, probably a temple. The names of the chief officials engaged in the work are also lost, with the exception of the fragments of four letters. Notwithstanding these ravages, the stone is of great value, and that part of the inscription that is left gives us information which we did not possess before. The inscription may, I think, be thus read:- ... ... ... ... ... ... LVCA[NVS] PRAEF[ECTVS] ALAE AVGVSTAE PETRIANAE TORQ[VATAE] M[ILLIARIAE] C[IVIVM] R[OMANORVM] D[E]D[ICAVERVNT] (or D[E]D[ICAVIT]). '(This temple) was dedicated to --, by Lucanus (?) the Prefect of the Petriana Cavalry, surnamed Augustan, entitled to wear the torque, consisting of a thousand men, all Roman citizens.' The notices which we have previously had of the Ala Petriana have been very scanty. Its name appears on the Riveling rescript, along with other troops then in Britain, under the charge of Aulus Platorius Nepos. This rescript belongs to the eighth tribuneship of Hadrian, answering to A.D. 124. In Camden's day a stone - which was lost before Horsley's time - had an inscription, which has been thus read by Horsley:- ... ... ... GADVNOVLP[IVS] TRAI[ANVS] EM[ERITVS] AL[AE] PET[RIANAE] MARTIVS F[ACIENDVM] P[RO] O[VRAVIT]. 'Ulpius Trajanus Martius, a veteran of the Petriana cavalry, caused this to be erected to (the memory of) Gadnus.' This stone was found at Old Penrith. Last summer, a carving upon the side of an old limestone quarry at Banks- |
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