30.
Silchester lies in a stoneless country, so that stone inscriptions would naturally be few and would easily be used up for later building.
Moreover, its cemeteries have not yet been explored, and only one tombstone has come accidentally to light.] [Footnote 2: Sir E.M.Thompson, _Greek and Latin Palaeography_ (1894), p.

211, first suggested this explanation; _Eph._ ix.

1293.] [Footnote 3: To call them--as did a kindly Belgian critic of this paper in its first published form--'un nombre de faits trop peu considerable' is really to misstate the case.] [Illustration: FIG.2.

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_puellam_.] [Illustration: FIG.3._Fecit tubul( um) Clementinus_.] [Illustration: FIG.4._vi K( alendas) Oct( obres)_....] [Illustration: FIGS.