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2. Orieof the fides, which is fontiewhat narrowef tiiaa 
the Front or Back ; on this are engraved in BafHrelieve^ 
the Cutting^hjiife {cefefpita') and the Ax (fecuris). The 
Knife is exa^ly the lame with that on the other Altar 
formerly by me mentioned in the Philofophical Golle£li- 
onsof Mr. Hooke 5 but the hx is different > for here it is 
headed with a long and crooked poin t;» and there the head 
of the Aa; is divided into 3 points. 
3. The other fide; on which are engraved after the 
fame manner an Eure (Vneolus) and a Ladkj which fervc 
for a Sympullum. This I call rather a Ladle^ than a Mallets 
it being perfe^lyDifti-wife and hollow in the middle^ al- 
tho Camden is ofanotheropinionin that elegant Sculpt of 
the Cumberland Altar. And the very fame Utenhl I have 
feen and noted on the Ickley Altar, which is yet extant 
zt Middle ton ^r^sf/z^^ near that Town 5 but the Stone \thich 
CaThbden fdxts fupportsa pair of Stairs there fas at this day 
it does in the very Roadj is but an ill Copy of it, and 
not the Original. 
4. The Plane of the Top i which is cut in the Figure of 
a Bafm (difcus or lanxy ) with cmfis on each fidej coniiiling 
of a pair of links of a chain 3 which reft upon, and fall 
over two Rowles 5 And this was the Hartk ' - ^ 
J. The Front ; which hath an Infcription of nine 
lines in Roman Letters, each Letter a very little more thari 
two inches deep of our meafure; now remaining as in 
the preffxt Sculpture, Fig^ 5. which I would read thus, 
Dis deabi^qi Mambus pro Salute M. Aurelii Antomni Augufii 
Imperatoris — votum folvit lubens lubem merit 0 ob reditum. 
The M^r^j" are well interpretted by iS^/i^^;?. It is 
iilueh his Safety and Return both vowed^ fhould be fo 
federated in the Infcription; but I have not Gruter by me 
to compare this with the like. Caracalla (d.y the Hiftori- 
ans"^ after his Fathers death at took upon him the *^tphlli»Hs 
Gommaiidofthe Army alone, and the whole Empire 5/^^^^*^^^^ 
he went alone againft the Enemie, who were the Cakdomj 
K a inhabiting 
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