^{page 206 note 1} Messrs. Sotheby & Co. Sale Catalogue, Monday 12 April 1948: collection of Roman Antiquities, the property of E. F. Hope-Masham, Esq., 3 Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W., p. 8, lot 88; the tablets were described as ‘fragments of three wooden Writing Tablets, from Walbrook, City of London’.

^{page 207 note 1} Cf. London in Roman Times (London Catalogue 3), 55, fig. 9, no. 2 and 57, fig. 10, exhibit tablets with exactly comparable nicks.

^{page 207 note 2} As used for other London examples, ibid., 54.

^{page 207 note 3} The strength of the impression suggests that it was probably a bronze pen, cf. ibid., 58, fig. 11, no. I.

^{page 208 note 1} Cf. Holder, , Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, i, 1455Google Scholar, s.v.

^{page 208 note 2} The name itself does not appear to be found, but the elements are common enough.

^{page 208 note 3} C.I.L. iv, Suppl. 1, 275-454: for convenient reproductions cf. Diehl, ., Inscriptiones Latinae (1912), p. xviiiGoogle Scholar.

^{page 208 note 4} London Museum, op. cit., 5 5, fig. 9, no. 1.

^{page 208 note 5} Ibid., nos. 2, 3.

^{page 208 note 6} C.I.L. iii, 2, 921 ff.: for good examples, official or semi-official documents, see nos. I, V, VI, and VIII.