The church of SMaria antiqua . saw in 1901 an inscription (Fig. 19) which was found It iscarved upon a slab of white marble, and is only a small fragment of thewhole, as it is complete at the top and on the right hand, and only aportion of the cognomen remains in the first line. It may be perhapsrestored as follows: \donis militaribus d\onato ab [imp. Caes. T. Aug. .... \>leg. v. Mac\ed>leg x. The lettering is particularlyfine—the form of the G is rare in the first century , but not unknown ;cf. Hubner, Exempla Scripturae Epigraphicae, prolegomena ad litt. G, whoc


The church of SMaria antiqua . saw in 1901 an inscription (Fig. 19) which was found It iscarved upon a slab of white marble, and is only a small fragment of thewhole, as it is complete at the top and on the right hand, and only aportion of the cognomen remains in the first line. It may be perhapsrestored as follows: \donis militaribus d\onato ab [imp. Caes. T. Aug. .... \>leg. v. Mac\ed>leg x. The lettering is particularlyfine—the form of the G is rare in the first century , but not unknown ;cf. Hubner, Exempla Scripturae Epigraphicae, prolegomena ad litt. G, whocites an African inscription of 30 (no. 233), an inscription fromPompeii (no. 335), and another from Spain (no. 426), both of the time ofVespasian, and one from Rome of the time of Domitian { vi. 8798).With this inscription was found (so I was told) a gold ring weighing29 grammes. There were also found here three lamps, all undecorated above, butbearing stamped inscriptions on the bottom : (a) FORTIS {


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