402 NOTES ON LATIN INSCRIPTIONS FOUND IN BRITAIN. 
likewise a female one symbolising the passive powers of nature, and by whom 
the Moon (as by the Syrian Astarte or Venus-Urania), was originally intended.” 
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‘The goddess worshipped conjointly with Apollo at Aque Solis [or, as others 
prefer, Aque Sulis] was clearly the Celtic Minerva, as appears from the epithet 
SVL., by which she was there known, and which, like that of Baalsemen [Lord 
of Heaven,] had both a feminine and masculine application. The Solimara, 
[Orelli, n. 2050,] worshipped by the Bituriges may have been the same as the 
British Sul.” 
52. The following is a copy of the inscription on the Bath altar, 
in which the Suleve are named : 
SVLEVIS 
SVLINVS 
SCVLTOR 
BRV[CJETI: F 
SACRVM:F-L:M 
Mr. Scarth remarks :—“ In the name of the dedicator we have an 
instance of the name of an individual derived from the presiding 
deity of the waters [i. e, Sul]; this is also to be remarked on another 
altar—Sulinus Maturi fil.’ This account of the etymology of the 
name seems probable, especially when we call to mind the Greek and 
Roman usage of forming names of persons from the names of their 
- deities, such as Hermogenes, Jovinus, &c. 
The prima facie interpretation of the three middle lines, scl. 
*‘Sulinus Scultor, the son of Brucetus,’’ is liable to the objections, 
that Sulinus of the other altar has but one name; and that “ the last 
three lines of this inscription are in letters much smaller, and not so 
deeply cut as the first two lines,” whence ‘ Mr. Hunter thinks that 
the first two lines are the original inscription and that the others were 
added afterwards.’ This peculiarity suggests the conjecture that the 
first inscription was left imperfect, and that a different person,’’ ‘Scultor, 
the son of Brucetus’ took the vacant space for his inscription consist- 
ing of the last three lines. But the Greek and Roman stone cutters 
seem to have been so capricious as to the size of the letters and the 
depth of the cutting im the same inscription, that we are scarcely 
warranted in inferring in this case two inscriptions. I am inclined to 
think that Scultor is not a name of a person, but the designation of 
an occupation, scil. sewlptor, the carver or stone cutter, 7. e. “ Sulinus 
the carver.” 
