Horfely, No. 49, Cumberland, and by Mr. Gordon, tab. 37: they
both juftly ftyle it the beft o f the Roman work of this nature in.
Britain ■, and the firit properLy makes it a genius, and probably
that of the Emperor. The figure is ereft, 3 f. 3 inches high,,
holding in one hand a patera over an altar; in the other a cornucopia,
the laft frequently-obferved both in fculpture and in medals.
On his head is a mural crown: each of thefe particulars are to be
met with in Monfaucon, tom. i. part, ii. in the figuresoftab.ee.
The whole length of the ftone is 7 f. 4 inches: in the lower part
is a long perpendicular groove, with another ihort and tranfverfe
near the middle: in this, I conjefture might have been fixed an iron,
forming part o f the ftand o f a lamp,, which was cuftomarily
placed burning before the ftatues of deities.
X.. A figure in a clofe drefs, not- unlike1 a carter’^ frock, or
what Monfaucon calls fagum claufum, reaching down to the heels:
on-one fide is a boar, on. the other a wheel, and beneath that an'
altar: in the left hand of the figure is part of a cornucopia. The
figure is. evidently Gaulijh, but the hiltory is obfeure: the boar is
an emblem of Caledonia: the wheel a known type o f Fortune: It
is. alfo a concomitant, o f ’Em/co, a Saxon or northern deity. As
the Roman armies in this kingdom were latterly compofed o f different
Gaulijh and foreign nations, their deities-were introduced, and
intermixed with thofe of. the Romans, a moll fuperftitious people,-
ready and accuftomed to adopt thofe of every country. We
need not .be.furprized at the variety of figures found in this place,
where it is evident.that liberty o f confcience was allowed by there,
having, been- fo near a temple of every nation, a latitudinarian Pan,
t h s o n ,
XI. Is;