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According to Festus, dogs were employed in the temples of that 

 god because he had been " suckled " by one of them, and the 

 monuments of Epidauros, and of the Asklepion at Athens, as well 

 as the coins of the Magnetes show us the dog in combination 

 with the serpent. Inscriptions recently discovered at Epidauros 

 prove that dogs acted there as the ministers of Askl^pios. 

 The piece of Sculpture on the third face of the stone seems to 

 me to represent ApoUo and Koronis the mother of Asklepios. It 

 may be compared with a bas-relief, once built into the walls of 

 Bath, and figured by Guidott who makes out that it depicts a 

 shepherd and his mistress ! On the newly found stone the male 

 figure seems evidently intended to represent Apollo. Can any 

 traces of a crow be detected among the branches of the tree above 

 the head of the recHning female figure 1 " 



The Rev. Preb. Scarth, having examined the Sculpture and 

 formed an independent opinion thereon before hearing Professor 

 Sayce's interpretation, read the following notes at the Anniversary 

 dinner of the Club February 18th. 



" The statement of Solinus respecting the " Calidi Fontes " in 

 Britain, "Opiparo exculti apparatu," has received singular con-, 

 firmation, after an interval of 1,500 years, by the discovery of an 

 interesting Sculpture in the form of an Altar, but not quite so 

 massive as Eoman Altars of the same dimensions usually are. 



"This stone has two Sculptures on opposite sides, front and back,, 

 and one on the side, — the other side seems to have been fixed 

 into masonry. 



" The Sculptures are much defaced, but shew signs of early 

 Roman art, being executed with much spirit. The stone has a 

 plinth which projects, and the subjects are on panels, the figures 

 being in relief. 



" The whole surface of the front face is occupied by two figures, 

 the one standing and the other reclining. 



" The standing figure is that of a man extending the right arm, 

 and holding what on minute examination is found to be a lamb, 

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