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on her head, wielding a javelin in her hand, even carry ing 

 a Gorgon's head of snakes upon her breast-plate, and thus 

 mixing in fight with men. So acting, she must necessarUy 

 shew a manliness of muscularity Ln the face, superior per- 

 haps to any even in the Belvidere Apollo, yet not superior 

 to what we behold in this head. There is indeed a softened 

 manhness, and a chastised femality in our Minerva, that 

 has occasioned all the puzzle about the sex, that yet is the 

 very characteristic of this very Goddess."* 



In the year 1714 a colossal head of a female was dis- 

 covered, and sent by Mr. Francis Child, of Bath, as a 

 present to Dr. Musgrave, who then resided at Exeter. Dr. 

 Musgrave named it the Britanno-Belgic Andromache, and 

 it was set up in his patch. It is not known what became 

 of it after his decease. He has made this head the subject 

 of the 19th chapter of his Belgium Britannicum, and has 

 given a front and back view of it, shewing the convolutions 

 of the hair. The statue of which this was the bust, must 

 have been eight feet two inches in height. It probably 

 stood upon a pedestal, or perhaps a column ; and this bust, 

 it may be presumed, gave Mi'. Lysons the hint of the 

 obelisk crowned with a statue, which he has mtroduced in 

 his general view of what Bath may have been in the most 

 flom-ishing times of Roman grandeur. (Catalog. p. 80). 



With the bronze head of Minerva were found at the 

 same time several Roman coins. Horsley visited Bath 

 about 1730, and he teils us that a very beautiful and 

 elegant figure Stands in the Town Hall, and beside it are 

 preserved in a box some coins, that were found at the same 

 time. The box and the coins are no longer forthcoming. 

 Neither of them are noticed by Mr. Warner. They were 

 (aa the Bath Guide informs us) of INIarcus Aurclius, Maxi- 



* Antijacobin Review, vol. x., p. 344. Ed. 1801. 

 1853, PART II. M 



