. The Archaeological journal. e given has the missinglines supplied chiefly from hiscopy. I have ventured torender the last line more com-plete than he has done, forthe discovery of several otherinscriptions at this place oflate renders it quite certainthat the first cohort of theHamii, not the fourth cohortof the Gauls (as Horsley sup-posed), were the dedicatorsof the altar. The inscriptionreads Deao Suriae sub CalpurnioAgricola legato augustali pro-praetore Aulus Licinius Clemenspraefectus cohortis prima) Ham-iorum. To the Syrian goddessAulus Licinius Clemens prefectof the first cohort of th
. The Archaeological journal. e given has the missinglines supplied chiefly from hiscopy. I have ventured torender the last line more com-plete than he has done, forthe discovery of several otherinscriptions at this place oflate renders it quite certainthat the first cohort of theHamii, not the fourth cohortof the Gauls (as Horsley sup-posed), were the dedicatorsof the altar. The inscriptionreads Deao Suriae sub CalpurnioAgricola legato augustali pro-praetore Aulus Licinius Clemenspraefectus cohortis prima) Ham-iorum. To the Syrian goddessAulus Licinius Clemens prefectof the first cohort of the Hamiiunder Calpurnius Agricola,Augustan legate and proprie-tor. The Hamii were natives of Syria. The Syrians were much addicted to the worshipof Cybcle. There is at present lying in the garden atCarvoran a fragment of a stone which bears- all the ap-pearance of having formed part of an altar similar to thisone; at all events the name of Calpurnius Agricola isdistinct. To one other altar only will we direct attention. Though. ROMAN ANTIQUITIES AT CAMBRIDGE not from the region of the Wall it still belongs to the northof England, li is without doubt the most elaborately carvedaltar which the Romans resident in Britain have Left us. Itis now preserved in the quadrangle of St. Johns mentions it. and tells us it was found in the Romanstation of Ribchester. The inscription, which he informs us•• was copied for him. he gives as follows:— SEO ESAM ROLNASON OSALVEDN AL. Q. Q. SAR BBEVENM BEDIANIS ANTOM IVS MEC. VI. IC r, perhaps, was so unmeaning a concatenation of letterssubmitted to the gaze of a bewil---— dered antiquary. Camden could make nothing of the inscription,but BUggests somewhat waggishlythai it contained little more thanthe British names of places ad-joining. Ilorsley grappled withCamdens corrupted copy, andelicited one portion of truth. HeBays, I believe the foui th linemay he Alae equitum Sarma[ tarum I. The altar seems soon after itsdi
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