A Pannonian Refugee of Quality at Salona

Abstract

A N INSCRIPTION DISCOVERED IN 1878 (see plates I-II and figure 1) re-used in a church at Split, near Salona the capital of Roman Dalmatia, was for many years believed to attest an unusual and improbable contact between Britain and the Mediterranean World in the early fifth century of our era. The text survives on two blocks of local limestone, the larger right-hand block having been more recently broken into roughly four quarters. It may be transcribed thus: