252 RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



Again, one or other of the gods is styled Eestitutor. Mars might 

 be called Eepressor, Eaptor, &c. Fortuna is named Redux, and 

 Juno is described as Eegina. But. to try back again, E may 

 refer to the donor and dedicator of the patera. He may have 

 desired to express his citizenship, or his being a victorious 

 Eoman soldier, and then perhaps we may read "iElius Modestus, 

 Eomanus,* Deo Marti." Most likely however a comparison of 

 this inscription with others will give a better clue to the meaning 

 intended, and amongst many dedications to Mars, I observe this 

 one in particular (described as being on a thin plate of bronzef), 

 at Ohessels, West Ooker, Somersetshire, 



DEO MARTI 



RIGISAMO 



IVENTIVS 



SABINVS 



V. S. L. L. M. 



probably for: — "Deo Marti Eigisamo Inventius Sabinus votum 

 solvit leetus libens merito." Moreover I find that the term Rigidus 

 is applied to Mars by Ovid ; (Metamorph, 8, 20.) 



We will close these remarks about the libation-bowl 

 inscribed to Mars by mentioning that at Lincoln! a curious vase, 

 of white ware, was found, 10-ins. high, on the front of which 

 was a human face, and around the base, outside the jug, a 

 dedication to Mercury, in painted letters : — do miircurio. The 

 letter e being formed of two perpendicular strokes, resembles 

 very nearly the corresponding letters on the Bossens cup. 



A beautiful bronze dish or bowl, with long handle, designed 

 to be used in the worship of Mars,§ was found at Pompeii, and 

 a shallow white marble bowl of great delicacy appropriated to 

 the worship of Bacchus || in Hadrian's Villa. Numerous dedicated 

 paterse, &c, besides, are also well-known to archaeologists. 



Sufficient description, perhaps, has already been given of 

 the other objects (0), (D), (E), (F), (Q-), by Borlase and in this 

 paper. We will therefore pass on from them with a very few 

 remarks. 



*In Lancashire is this legend, viz : — Deo Marti et Victorias P. R no 



CC. NN." which is supposed to stand for : -Deo Marti et Victorias Populi Romani 

 in honorem Caesarum Nostrorum. (Hiibner, No. 220). 



f Lamina asnea tenuis (Hiibner, No. 61). 



X Soc. of Antiq., Proc, Vol. 3, 2nd series, p, 440, with illustration. 



§ Donaldson's Pompeii, Vol. 2, p. 78. 



|| Smith's Diet, Greek and Roman Antiq., p. 872. 



