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" was the palace assuredly of that Roman who was the 

 commandant of the colony at Bath. This perhaps became 

 afterwards the mansion of the provincial Prasses, and cer- 

 tainly the palace of the Saxon kings afterwards." 



ENTRÄNGE TO THE INSTITUTION. 



These remains were found on the site of the present 

 Pump Room, with a great number of other fragments, 

 some of great curiosity and importance, and which may 

 be referred to a great Teinple which formerly stood on 

 that site. They were disinterred in 1790. These re- 

 mains excited very strongly the attention of the anti- 

 quaries of the time. Sir Henry Englefield, who hap- 

 pened to be in Bath soon after their discovery, transmitted 

 an account of them to the Society of Antiquaries, who 

 published it in the Archaeologia, with a restoration of a 

 portico of the Temple, (vol. x. p. 325). Governor PownaU 

 published, in 1 795, a quarto pamphlet, entitled " Descrip- 

 tions and explanations of some remains of Roman Archi- 

 tecture, dug up in the city of Bath, a.D. 1790." Mr. 

 Warner has much respecting them in his " lUustrations " 

 and his " History." Whitaker has many ingenious re- 

 marks in his elaborate review of Warner's " History." 

 Mr. Lysons has four plates of these remains, and a fifth, 

 in which is a restoration of the portico. 



GREAT TEMPLE. 



Mr. Whitaker endeavours to prove that this Temple 

 was in the form of a rotunda. He compares it to the 

 Pantheon at Rome, which was dedicated to Minerva, as the 

 Temple at Bath can almost with certainty be proved to 

 have been. He says : " The Pantheon of Minerva 

 Medica, an agnomen very similar in allusiveness to our 

 pi'iunomen of Sulinis for Minerva, is noticed expressly by 



