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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
In the autumn of 1921 a scheme for the extension of the Exchange at Bordeaux led to the demolition of certain properties in the Rue du Pont-de-la-Mousque. During the operations the workmen encountered the original Roman wall of the town, built about A.D. 300 as a result of the great invasion of A.D. 276. The Chamber of Commerce, on the enlightened initative of their President, M. Étienne Huyard, decided to follow up the discovery by a systematic and careful excavation. The decision was justified by its happy results. Many interesting objects which had been utilized as building material were brought to light. These included a votive altar with an inscription which is of peculiar importance because of the light which it throws on the early relations of Gaul and Britain. A brief account of it may not be unwelcome to readers of the Journal of Roman Studies.
page 101 note 1 Cf. Jullian, C., Histoire de la Gaule iv. pp. 598–602Google Scholar; and, on the walling of Bordeaux, Leo Drouyn, Bordeaux vers 1450, pp. 3–7, and Jullian, , Inscr. rom. de Bordeaux ii. pp. 284–303, 587–589Google Scholar.
page 102 note 1 Groag, in Pauly-Wissowa, , Real-Encyclopädie iv, 1249Google Scholar.
page 103 note 1 C. Jullian, Inscr. rom. de Bordeaux. Nos. 20, 61, 26, 29 (C.I.L. xiii, 584, 633, 590, 592).
page 103 note 2 Holder, , Altceltischer Sprachsatz i, 1395 fGoogle Scholar. gives: obiit in Britannia Eboraci and perit Eboraci, but no example following ab.
page 103 note 3 Tac. Ann. xiv, 29, 35Google Scholar; Agric. 14–16. Dio, lxii, 7.
page 103 note 4 Holder, (op. cit. i, 497)Google Scholar, following d'Arbois de Jubainville, derives it from the root boudi ‘profit.’ Cf. the adjective boudius=victoriosus.
page 103 note 5 C. Jullian, Notes gallo-romaines. Sainte Victoire, Victoria, Andarta (Rev. des Ét. anc. 1899, p. 49).
page 103 note 6 The cognomen Lunaris is very uncommon. But it was borne by a Roman soldier who fell in Dacia, probably in Domitian's wars (Dessau, Inscr. Sel. 9107). Moreover it occurs in Britain, on a tombstone found at Brougham Castle in Cumberland (Ephem. Epigr. iii, 87).
page 103 note 7 Daremberg and Saglio, s.v. Augustales.
page 103 note 8 Cf. Itin. Ant. p. 475, 3, p. 476, 7, p. 477, 9, p. 478, 10.
page 103 note 9 v. 31, p. 430, 2. The inscriptions found at Lincoln relate chiefly to legionaries.
page 103 note 10 C.I.L. vii, 248.
page 103 note 11 Geogr. ii, 3, 10.
page 103 note 12 Ceterum splendor coloniae non videtur magnus fuisse, quoad quidem ex titulis reliquiisque aedificiorum conjectum fieri potest (C.I.L. vii, p. 61).
page 104 note 1 Dio lv, 23; C.I.L. viii, 5180.
page 104 note 2 Hübner, in Pauly-Wissowa, , Real-Encyclopädie, iii, 878Google Scholar; Domaszewski, von in Rheinisches Museum, xlviii, 345Google Scholar; Haverfield, Arch. Oxoniensis, 1894, 9.
page 104 note 3 Geogr. iv, 5, 2.
page 104 note 4 C. Jullian. Inscr. rom. de Bordeaux No. 62 (C.I.L. xiii, 634).
page 105 note 1 Jullian, C., Histoire de la Gaule, iv, pp. 547 fGoogle Scholar.
page 105 note 2 Inscr. rom. de Bordeaux No. 22 (C.I.L. xiii, 1753). It is no longer extant.
page 105 note 3 Espérandieu, Nos. 1738 f. (C.I.L. xiii. 1754). Cf. Graillot, Le Culte de Cybèle, 1911, p. 461.
page 105 note 4 Graillot, op. cit. pp. 472 f. For an opposite view, see von Domaszewski in J.R.S. i, pp. 50 ff. where it is pointed out that the cult could hardly be expected to flourish in a province that had no few municipia.
page 105 note 5 The attitude of the goddess and the cornucopiae should be compared with the monument of Tutela Ausrusta, dedicated by Lupus and his son Montanus, and now in the Musée Lapidaire at Bordeaux. (Cf. Jullian, C., Inscr. rom. de Bordeaux, i, p. 76Google Scholar and Espérandieu, No. 1073).
page 105 note 6 Graillot, op. cit. pp. 36, 105, and 200.
page 106 note 1 Bernouilli, , Röm. Ikonogr. II, i, p. 94Google Scholar, No. 3 B (Pl. xxvii, 2). Cf. Graillot, op. cit. pp. iii f.
page 106 note 2 Espérandieu, No. 1267.
page 106 note 3 Graillot, op. cit. p. 461. Jullian, C., Hist. de la Gaule, vi, p. 66, n. 2Google Scholar.
page 106 note 4 Tibullus (i, 7, 11) has Magnusque Garunna; Strabo i, 1, 177 and 14, 189) τοῦ Γαρούνα, ὁ Γαρούνας; Mela (3, 2, 21) Garunna ex Pyrcnaeo monte delapsus. In the fourth century Ausonius (Mos. 483; Epist. 10, 13; 14, 1; 26, 74) and Paulinus of Pella (Eucharist. 44–46) were the only authors who made the river Garonne feminine. In the fifth century Sidonius Apollinaris (Epist. 8, 7, 5 11. 44 ff.; 11, 3, 1. 31; Carm. 7, 11. 393 f.) restored it to its masculine gender (Holder, , Altceltischer Sprachs. I, 1985–87Google Scholar). Cf. an article by M. de La Ville de Mirmont in the Petite Gironde for 7th Jan. 1922.
page 107 note 1 Cf. Jullian, C., Histoire de la Gaule, ii, p. 35Google Scholar, n. 2 and p. 36, n. 4. M. Jullian cites the analogy of the German Eber.
