The Roman Wall / A historical, topographical, and descriptive account of the barrier of the lower isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway, deduced from numerous personal surveys

by J. Collingwood Bruce

Through the rank moss revealed, her honoured dust.

That Housesteads is the Borcovicus of the empire,

appears plain from the numerous inscriptions that allude to the first cohort of the Tungrians, which, according to the Notitia, was quartered there. One of these inscriptions is shewn on page [63]; another, a sepulchral stone, is here presented. The figure on the top of the slab I take to be a rabbit, and suspect that it had some reference to the worship of the obscene god, Priapus. The inscription is usually read in the following manner, though, perhaps, ordinario might with equal propriety be read ordinato:—

D[IIS] M[ANIBVS]

ANICIO

INGENVO

MEDICO

ORDI[NARIO] COH[ORTIS]

PRIMÆ TVNGR[ORVM]