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Godefs, faid to be the Mother of Mars , in a wooden 
Temple gilded over, which was drawn in a Chariot (a). 
Such Shrines are mentioned likewife by later Writers. 
And others of a lefler Size feem to have been made in 
Imitation of them for private Ufe. The Jilver Shrines 
of\Diana, mentioned alfo in the facred Hifiory cited 
already ( b ), are by mod: Interpreters faid to be of 
this kind. And Mr. Kemp had in his Collection of 
Antiquities one made of Brafs, but five Inches high, 
with a Godcfs, fuppofed to be Ifis-, firing in it 5 as it 
is defcribed in the printed Catalogue (0). Another 
of the fame Deity, but of a different Form, and 
fomewhat lefs, is now in the Pofiefiion of James 
Weft Efquire, a worthy Member of this Society. 
And fometimes they were placed in the Monuments 
of deceafed Perfons, an Infiance of which we find 
mentioned in an Infcription publifhed by Reineftus , 
which is there faid to have been made of Marble (d). 
The Perfons imployed in making thofe facred Images 
were called by the Greeks ay«fy*aWozol, and by the 
Romans Sigillarii, as we find in the antient Gloffa- 
ries (e). And one of thefe Artifls is mentioned in 
two Infcriptions of the Britannia Romana , where he 
is filled SIGILLARIVS COLLEGII LIGNIFERO- 
RVM (e), who arc more ufuaily called by the Greek 
Name DENDROPHORI ; Part of whofe Bufinefs 
might be to carry, or attend, the Shrines in their 
Proceflions at public Feftivals. 
Whether 
(a) Lib. 11. cap. 63, {b) Aits xix. 24. ( c ) Monument. 
Kempian. Par. i. pag. 6. (d) Claff. xin. num. 64. ( e ) In 
voce dy&rp.&TOTrtiQi. (/) Pag. [354-] 
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