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 '9S EBORACim th« present dty, bat as compared with the whot^ extent of the ancient one, since the preceding measurements apply only to the parts within the walls ; the suburbs being coudderablef and the Boman remains (as opposed to the intra-mural part of the town) being abnndant The chief streets of these suburbs followed the chief roads, of which the most important was that which led to Calcaria (Tad- cotter). Next to this was the one towards Isurium (^Aldbintmgh). The othera, in the direction of Man* cunium ( jfemeftester) and Praetorium (^Patring- ton)j are less rich in relics. In other words, the streets of the suburbs of the ancient Eboracum seem to have been prolonged in the north and south rather than in the east and west directions. The river Foue, however much it may be more or less a na^ tnral channel — a water-course rather than a cutting •— retains its Boman name. Of private dwellings, baths (with the hjpocausts), pavements (tesselated), the remains are numerous. So they are in respect to temples, altars, and votive tablets. From these some of the most remarkable inscriptions are— 1. DEO. SAIVCTO. 8ERAPI. TBICPLVM. A80 (a SOlo). LO. FECIT CL. RIBBOirr MIANVS. LEG. LEO VI. yio 2. I. O. M DI8. DEABVSQTB ROSPITALIDVS. PB FATIBVSQ. OBCOir BSRVATAM SALVTEIC 8VAM. SVORVMQ. P. AEL. HARCIAN YS. PRAEF. OOH. ARAM. SAC. F. VC. D 3. DBAS FORTVHAE S08IA JVKCnfA Q ANTONI. ISAVRICI LEO. AYO 4. OENIO LOCt FBUCITBB 5. M. TBRBC. DI0OENE8 lliiilVTR OOL EBYRIDXDMQ MORTCIYE8B1TVRIX CYBY8 HAEC 8IBI YIYY8 FECIT In the last of these inscriptions the combination liiiilYiB gives us the title 5eptr, a title applied to certain municipal, colonial, or military officers of unascertained value. It is this inscription, too, where we find the name Ebyr (ss £&uractM»), the term ool (= ooloma) attached to it. The first of them is interesting fixxn another fact; viz. the foreign character of the god Serapis, whose name it boirs. Besides this piece of evi- dence to the introduction of exotic superstitions into Boman Britain, a so-called Mithiaic slab has been found at York, i. e. a carved figure of a man, with a cap and chlamys, stabbing a bulL The dress, act, EBUKA. and attitude, along with certain cdiaraeteristacs in the other figure of the group, appear to josd^ this interpretation. Tombs, sepulchral inscriptions, urns, Samiaa ware in considerable quantities, form the remainder of the non-metallic Boman antiquities of York; to which may be added a few articles in glass. FiboJae, armillae, and coins, represent the metallurgy. Of these latter those of Geta are the most numerous. It has been remarked, too^ that, although throoghoat Britain generally, of the cdns of the two usurpers, those of Carausius are the more common, in the ndgh- bourhood of York they are less abundant than tbose of his successor Allectus. The evidence that Sevems died at York is from his life in Spartianns (c 19), whose statement is repeated by Aurelina Victor (de Caet. 20), Eutro- pius (viiL 19), and other later authorities. Victor (L c.) calls Eboracum a municipinm; but in sa ancient inscription it is styled a coknua. The em- peror Constantius also died at Eboracum, as we learn from Eutropius (x. 1). The other accre- dited fiKts, such as the residence of Papinian, and the birth of Constantine the Great, at York, net on no classical evidence at alL The supposed fiuienl mounds of Severus, near York, are natural, rather than artificial, formations. (Philipp's ForitAtfS; Wellbeloved's York.) [B. G. L.] EBBEDUNUK, EBUBODUNUM (Tverdm). This is the Castrum Ebredunense of the Notitia of the Gallic provinces, at the southern end of the kke of NeMchdtelf in the csnton of Vaud in SmtEerhnd. It is situated where the river Orbe enters the lake, and it is supposed to be the place which is mentioDed in the Notitia of the empire: " in provincia Gallia Bipensi, praefectus clasus Barcarioruui Ebrndnm Sapaudiae;" for the fleet, whaterer it may have been, could not have been kept at Ebrodunum on the Durance. [G. L] EBBODU'NUHCE«fM^ovyDy:£fn5nM> There is some variation in the writing of the first pert of the name. It is Epebrodunum in Stnbo*s text, bat Gasanbon corrected it. Strabo (p. 179) says that ^ from Tarasco to the borders of the Vooontii and the beginning of the ascent of the Alps, throogh the Druentia and Caballio, is 63 miles; and finom theoee to the other boundaries of the Vocontii, to die king- dom of Oottins, to the village of Ebrodunum, 99." Ebrodunum was in the country of the Gatnriges, and just on the IxMrders of the Vooontii, as it appears. The position of Ebrodunum is easily determined by the Itins. and the name. Ptolemy (iii. 1) men^ tions Eborodunum as the city of the Catariges, and no other. In the Jerusalem Itin. Ebrodonum is called Mansio, like Caturiges (Chorget), which was also in the territory of the Caturiges. [Catubiobs.] There are Boman remains at Chorgea^ and none ars mentioned at Embrun, though it appears that the cathedral of Embrun is built on the site of a Bomsn temple, or that some of the materials of a temple were used for it. [G. L.] EBUDA, EBUDAE INSULAE. [Hbbodbs.] EBU'BA or E'BOBA. 1. QEJ^wpn, 'E«rf/«, & Tmcot de Barrameda)f a city and fortress of the Turduli, in Hispania Baetica, at the mouth of the river Baetis ( Guadalquivir), on its left bank. (Strab. uL p. 140; Mela, iii. 1, CatteUmn Eborainlitore; Ptol. u. 4. § 11 ; /«». ^iit p. 426; Steph. a #.».; Inscr. ap. Gruter, p. 489.) 2. Ebura Gebkalis, an inland city of Hispsms Baetica, probably in the neighbourhood of Stmta