STAMP NO. II.—CONTAINED IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
This large stamp consists (Plate I., No. II.[460]) of a flat quadrilateral stone, about an inch and a half broad, and engraved upon three of its sides. A portion of one corner of the stone is broken off. The probable deficiency which is thus produced in one of the inscriptions is supplied in this, and in some other similar instances in the sequel, by Italic letters. The three inscriptions read as follow:—
1. SEX: JUL: SEDATI
CROCOD PACCIAN
2. SEX: JUL: SEDATI CRO-
CODES DIALEPIDOS
3. (Sex): JUL: SEDATI CRO-
(cod)ES AD DIATHES
The name of the oculist—Sextus Julius Sedatus—is imperfect on the third or broken side, the prænomen “SEX” being wanting on that side in the first line, and the middle syllable “COD” of the word Crocodes being also wanting, from the same cause, in the second line.
The restored reading of this third side—viz., sexti julii sedati crocodes ad diatheses—need not be dwelt upon, as it is so very similar to that on one side of the Tranent stone. The other two sides contain the names of two new varieties of crocodes.