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merit, as we find from our inscription those of Industria had done on Lucius 

 Pompeius. 



INDVSTKIENSIVM 



PATEONO 



OB. MERITA. 



Hereby the city Industria acknowledges Lucius Pompeius as its Patron or pro- 

 tector, and shows its gratitude for singular benefits received. Patrons and clients 

 were in the earliest times of the commonwealth ; but under the emperors inscrip- 

 tions show us frequently, that cities and nations chose for their patron some emi- 

 nent Roman citizens in favour with the prince, on whom they often conferred 

 great honours. 



T. GRAB. TROPHIMVS. IND. FAC. 



These words on the cornice our authors wondered to find, as it was unusual 

 for any but the most eminent painters and sculptors to put their names, and that 

 only to the most famous and perfect of their works. Whence they conjecture, 

 that this Titus Graecus Trophimus of Industria, might be not only the engraver 

 of the inscription, but likewise the sculptor of some image to which this may 

 have been the pedestal. 



These gentlemen, who are authors of the Marmora Taurinensia, went to this 

 village of Monteu in the Autumn of the year 1743 ; where they found many in- 

 scriptions, with the names of various magistrates, both civil and ecclesiastical ; 

 which were certain proofs that some considerable city had been in that place for- 

 merly : and returning thither the Autumn following, they found a broken stone; 

 on which, by putting the pieces together, they could plainly read, that there 

 had been decreed to a person named Cocceia, at the expence of the public, a 

 statue AB. IND., which they interpret ab Industriensibus, and suppose to mean 

 the citizens of Industria. 



COCCEIA 



HA ... EC . . AB. IND. 



FVNERE. PV. 



ET . STATVAM. 



Some peasants about the same time, digging in the plain betAveen the hills 

 near the Po, discovered the vestiges of an ancient fabric, with some medals ; and 

 in the middle of the following February, found the traces of a large room, other 

 medals, and some pieces of wrought brass ; and in March they discovered this 

 plate and tripos. Our authors mention also the discovery of many medals, a 

 Mosaic pavement, the remains of an ancient temple, basso-relievos, little images, 

 ruins of edifices, and inscriptions found here ; and give two passages from Pliny, 

 mentioning this place. 



In the first of these quotations, the city Industria is spoken of, as one of the 



