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IV. On some Roman Bronzes discovered in the bed of the Thames, in January 1837; Communicated by Charles Roach Smith, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Nicholas Carlisle, Esq. K.H., F.R.S., Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 June 2012
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In conjunction with John Newman, Esq. F.S.A., I am enabled to exhibit to the Society of Antiquaries some fine and interesting bronzes, which were found in the bed of the river Thames, near London Bridge, in January last, by men employed in ballast heaving. They are five in number, and consist of a Priest, or devotee, of Cybele; a Mercury; an Apollo; an Atys; and the fragment of a Mercury, or, in the opinion of Sir Richard Westmacott, of a Jupiter. A pedestal of bronze was also found in the same spot.
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page 38 note a By some antiquaries a doubt has been suggested, whether the object may not be a speculum.
page 38 note b Propertius, iv. 7.
page 40 note c Tibullus, III. iv. 27.
page 40 note d Atys fistulâ et virgâ ornatus est. Fistula ordinem spiritus inæqualis ostendit, quia venti, in quibus nulla æqualitas est, propriam sumunt de Sole substantiara. Virga Solis potestatem asserit qui membra moderatur.”—Elias Schedius de Diis Germanis, Amsterdam, 1648, 8vo. p. 77.
page 41 note e Libellus in Ibin, 1. 457.
page 42 note f Table lviii. of Gorius.
page 42 note g Met. liii. p, 241.
page 42 note h Schedius, De Diis Germanis, ut supr.
page 42 note i 1. 23.
page 44 note k Æn. VIII. 1. 543.
page 45 note l Vide cap. xii. lib. ii. commencing: “Adjecit autem Coifi,” and ending with “ac destruxit eas quas ipse sacraverat aras.”
In the epistle of Pope Gregory to Æthelbert, A D. 601, occur these commands: “ Idolarum cultus insequere, fanorum ædificia everte,” &c. Cap. xxxii. lib. i.
In another letter (to Mellitus), the same Pope says: “ipsa quee in eis sunt idola destruantur.”