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bow. The two former are sufficiently visible in the relief ; 

 but when he was represented under his " convivial " 

 character, instead of the latter implement of war, he bore, 

 in his right band, a " goblet." The association of Jove and 

 Hercules, on the same altar, was not unusual ; instances 

 occur in Gruter and Montfau^on. The practice, however, 

 flourished more particularly during the Joint reign of 

 Diocletian, and Maximian, the fonner of vvhom affected the 

 name and character of Jove ; the latter, those of Hercules. 

 This circumstance is considered by Mr. Warner as an 

 index to the date of the altar, which was probably raised 

 to the honour of those Emperors; and he places it somewhere 

 between the year A.D. 284, and 304, a period which com- 

 prehends the term of their dominion over the empire. 

 The altar seems to have filled the corner of the great 

 Temple, two of its sides being rough, and unwrought. 



SEPULCHRAL REMAINS. 



Frora the " Votive" we pass to the " Sepulchral Remains," 

 of which not less than ten have been found, although not 

 more than six of them now remain. Probably the most re- 

 markable, and that concerning which most has been written, 

 is the celebrated inscription to "Julius Vitalis." The 

 stone is longitudinal, having a triangulär top. Above the 

 inscription, is what appears to be the representatlon of fruit 

 and leaves. It was discovered in 1 708, by the side of the 

 London road, Walcot, with two urns, one large, the other 

 small ; both containlng ashes. It was for many years in the 

 east waU of the Abbey Church. It is now in the Literary 

 Institution. 



This monumental stone was erected to a person named 

 " Julius Vitalis," a Belgian, by which is probably meant, 

 that he was a descendant of the Belgje, who, a little before 



