An Inscription of the Equites Singulares Imperatoris from Gerasa

The following inscription has been kindly communicated to me, at the suggestion of Mr. D. G. Hogarth, by Mr. Henry Reitlinger, to whom I am very much indebted for permission to publish it in the Journal of Roman Studies . Mr. Reitlinger informs me that the inscription, which was engraved upon one side of a block of grey limestone, apparently an altar, about two feet high by one foot six inches broad, was discovered by some Circassian peasants among the ruins of Gerasa, in the Syrian Decapolis, two days before he himself arrived on the site at the end of November, 1913. The altar, which was still in its original position, stood about 67 yards north-east of the propylaea, which gives access from the main street to the great temple of the Sun. The stone, it may be hoped, is still in existence, since it was given into the charge of the Turkish commandant, who promised to do his best to save it from being used as building material

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