HO PAPEBS, ETC. 



presentecl it to the LIterary Institution. It is gupposed by 

 Whitaker to have hung in the Teraple of Minerva, on the 

 site of which it was discovered. It has been engraved in 

 the appendix to Warner's History of Bath, and contains 

 the head of a female, with the word POMPEIA, I. C. V. 

 It is very finely finished ; above the head, within the rim 

 round it, are the remains of a silver soldering, which show a 

 ring to have been fastened to it, for hanging it to a wall. 

 The dress is very striking, as the head has a flat coil of curls 

 behind, with a frontlet to the hair before, the latter of 

 which mounts up to a peak, and carries a tum-up in front, 

 and bears an Ornament upon it, truly Roman — a fibula, or 

 clasp, with a gem upon each of the three sides seen. This 

 frontlet runs down sloping to both ears, then turns by an 

 unseen fillet under the hair, and is fastened before by the 

 fibula, or clasp. But what is still more extraordinary, a 

 kind of love-lock (as Mr. Whitaker caUs it) hangs down 

 upon either side of the neck, braided, yet long — a sm-e, 

 though perhaps solitary, witness to that fashion. 



The face of " Pompeia " is a very fine one. It is one of 

 the best, perhaps, of all matronly faces that was ever exhi- 

 bited. She is supposed to have been a descendant of the 

 great Pompey, and we know that hia family afterwards 

 became united with that of Julius Csesar, his former rival 

 and competitor for the empire. Hence Wliitaker reads 

 I. C. V. Julius Caesaris Uxor, and supposes the medallion 

 to have been given as a present to the Temple, by some 

 descendant of the family, settled in the colony at Bath. 



Amongst the other misceUaneous articles which have been 

 discovered, is a Tabula Honestce Missionis ; it was dis- 

 covered about 1819 ; it is now, says Mr. Hunter, in the 

 coUection of Mr. Joseph Barratt ; a pillar, of about the 

 height of three fcct, on which, it is supposed, a small statue 



