4. At the Guildhall there is another small slab, having only a few letters, but these of fine early style (Fig. [124]). Both these little tablets and others probably were set on the wall of some burial chamber of the Columbarium type.
Fig. 123.
Fig. 124.
Fig. 125.
5. Another inscription of much the same character, but in smaller letters, is that on the hexagonal pedestal in the Guildhall Museum, of which a sketch was given in an earlier part. This provides an example of a group of tied letters (Fig. [125]). The writers of Roman inscriptions allowed themselves much freedom in contracting words, in setting a small letter within a big one, as in Fig. [a]119], and in combining two or three letters together. In Fig. 126 I have noted one or two other examples not all from London.
Fig. 126.