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Identifier: archaeologicaljo49brit (find matches)
Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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in (C. n. 1102=JSph. vii. n. 1093, Antonines Wall.)The suf&x-genvA is a common one, regularly denotingdescent from a mythical or unreal ancestor. The occur-rence of the name here supports the idea of M. de Villefossethat the letters after Deo M. were as given, M(arU), notM(&rc.~\ for Mercurio. The combination of the two notablenames is in itself curious, and the fact that the father hada Keltic name while the son had a Roman one shews thatthey lived in a period of transition. The Romanization ofBritain seems to have proceeded so slowly that Ave canprescribe no special epoch for the lives of these men butthey are worth noting if only because such examples oftransition in nomenclature are rarer in Britain than abroad.1 am particularly indebted to M. Heron de Villefosse formost kindly presenting two cuts to represent the handleand the inscription of the patera. VIII. London.84. (C. I).. L221a) Some thirty years ago some flatinscribed blocks of pewter were dredged up in the Thames
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ROMAN INSCRIPTIONS IX BRITAIN. L85 near Battersea bridge, and found their way to the British Museum (Arch. Joum. xvi.. 89., xxiii, 68; Proc. Soc.Ant, L863, p. 235, L865, p. 93). In the autumn of L890more were discovered in the Thames at Wandsworth, close to Battersea. I have seen three, perhaps all found, two inthe York Museum (Catal., p. 245), one in the British.Museum. The two kinds of stamps on them are identicalwith those on one of the earlier finds, though (a) was atfirst misread :— (a) SPES IN DEO round the monogram C>(6) SYAGfll St/agri K Of the York specimens, one weighs I7i-lbs., is 8f xlOin. across, and hears stamp (a) twice, stamp (h) threetimes; the other, of 7^-lbs., is LO x Gjdn.. and has themonogram and inscription each twice. Copied by myself: 1 do not think there can be any doubtthat the letters round the monogram in each are spes in deo ;though not all are complete, they supplement each other,and one at least of the stamps in the British Museum isperfect and pla

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