page 2 note 1 Cf. Arch. Journal, lvi (1899), 320Google Scholar; Ephaneris Epigraphica ix, 1001. It has become customary to date this Cirencester example to the third century A.D. (cf. Carcopino, op. cit., 25, following Rostovtzeff (Doura Prelim. Rep., v (1934), 159 f.Google Scholar)), but there is in fact no reason why it should not belong to the second or the fourth. It may be remarked here that Carcopino's suggestion of a military origin (op. cit., 56 n. 170) is fallacious. There is no evidence that Cirencester was ever a legionary station(the reference to Haverfield, Roman Occupation of Britain, 104, is a confusion with Wroxeter or Chester), nor, except perhaps for a short time under Claudius or Nero, anything but a civil town.