90 PAPEKS, ETC. 



milian, Diocletian, Constantine. Horsley says they were 

 of Marcus Aurelius, Maximinus, Maximilian, Diocletian, 

 Constantine, and some other Emperors. Aurelius appears 

 to have been the earliest Emperor acknowledged in these 

 coins ; and bis coin could be preserved in the temple 

 (says Wbitaker) or continued witli the head, merely to 

 mark the erection of the statue some one year betwixt 

 A.D. 163 and 181.* 



lipon an oblong stone was found, in the year 1790, in 

 excavating the ground for the foundation of the present 

 Pump Room, an inscription, wliich, by fiUing up the letters 

 wanting in the fragment, may be read 



CPROäCIVS 



DEAE. SVaS. MI.NERV^. 

 Many other fragments were found at the same time, which 

 did not ajipear to belong to the great temple, but to some 

 smaller edifice, which stood near it. 



These remains are now in the Literary Institution. 

 They are placed in the vestibule, and opposite the Temple 

 of Minerva. Mr. Lysons was the first to give any clear 

 Interpretation of these fragments. Out of them he has 

 composed the principal front of a small temj)le, and he places 

 the inscription given above over the door. He supposes a 

 line to be wanting, which made up the sense, that " Caius 

 Protacius built, or restored, this temple to the Goddess 

 Sul-Minerva." There have been found in Bath several 

 altars inscribed to the Goddess Sul^ and again Sul- 

 Minerva. In Mr. Lysons' restoration, the head of the 

 Goddess herseif is represented (as on the fragment in the 

 Institution) in the tympanum of the pediment, with a ser- 

 pent twisted round a staff, on one side of her. The hau- 

 is tied in a knot on the top of the head, and bchind her 



* See Antijacobiu Review, vol. x., no, xlii., p. 342. 



