BRONZE VESSEL WITH LETTERS OF SILVER. 



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Fig. 579. Bronze vessel of Roman workmanship, containing burnt bones, and a few 

 pieces of melted glass. Height, 18 inches. Inscribed on it are the following 

 words in silver: 1 "Apollini Granno donvm Ammillivs Constans prafectvs 

 templi ipsivs votvm solvit libentissimo merito." Mound, Fvcklinge, Yestman- 

 laud, Sweden, i real size. 



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Fig. 580. Roman bowl of bronze, found, with several antiquities, under 

 a slab at Sojvide, Gotland. 



1 Apollo Grannus, to whose temple 

 the vase once belonged, was worshipped 

 by the tribes of Gaul and Belgium. The 

 Roman historian Dio Cassius relates that 

 he was one of the gods worshipped by 

 the Emperor Caracal la, who was mur- 

 dered in A.D. 217. The name has also 

 been discovered in Transylvania on a 



stone which Quintus Axius .Elianus, 

 Governor of Dacia at the beginning of 

 the second centurv, had cut. It, however, 

 happens that this jElianus had before 

 this resided in Belgium, whither he had 

 probably brought with him the worship 

 of the god. 



