Auxilia Cohorts and the Claudian Invasion of Britain

[Centurio]

....agreed, and perhaps you could explain how you get " d(onis) d(onato) in triumpho a divo Claudio " out of "XX et prae[-]
fabr divi Cla[---------------]m[---]
Claudio [---------------------------]
pura [-------------------------------] " ...the 'fabr divi Cla..." in particular?

That's not Duncan who did it, but the editor of the inscription. 'Fabr' goes with the 'Prae' of the previous line as 'Praefectus Fabrum' and therefore belongs to a previous clause, the space after "divi Cla" is apparently sufficient to add in "udi et d d in triu". The lone M likely functioned as clue.

Maybe the whole text was written before the stone was damaged. Just guessing.