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part of an earthen fepulchral urn : I found alfo lomfe 
fragments of leather i all which, with what was 
found before, and brought me,. I fhall beg leave to 
defcribe, with, a few obfervations.. 
Fig. i. and 2. are two views of die patera : it was 
made of tin, the 20th of an inch thick, four inches- 
and a half wide at the brim:, but growing narrower 
downwards, was at the bottom, which was- flat, two 
inches and a. half in diameter. The bottom of the 
inftde is repr efented,j%. 1. in its real fize.. Fig. 2. is 
die fide of the fame patera, by the fcale annexed. 
The Roman patera was not always of the fame di~ 
mentions. When it was- of the larger fize, its ufe is 
well known to have been for receiving the blood of 
the vidtim, or to be carried before the priefts with 
other offerings 5 but when of lmaller dimenfions (as 
this is), either to offer libations of water, oil, or 
wine, on the altar (whence on medals the hand fo- 
often ftretched out, holding the patera towards the 
altar), or to participate the rites of faeri fice by drink- 
ing. This- patera had no anfa, or handle; tho’ that 
which is loft, and has been mentioned above,, had 
one on each fide : and indeed thofe found in England 
generally have. Mr. Addifon obferves [ Fravels , of 
his works, p. j ry.], that it is not fa common to find 
paterse with handles to them- abroad ,- but that a pa- 
tera without a handle would be as lingular here [in 
England] as one with it at Rome :: and Mr. Horfley, 
(p. *<?]), that all paterae, which he had feen upon any 
altars in Britain., had handles, tho.’ of different ftzes 
and fhapes t but if may be obfervedv that the five 
patera?, which I have feen found in Cornwall, never 
had any, and are therefore the more remarkable. It 
