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We now come to Professor Hutner’s own suggestion. 
Leaving for a moment the name of the deity, he reads the 
words within the label or inclosed space-, as follows :— volvsii 
iRENJEvs ET ARiMAxivs POSVERVNT, that is, he makes the dedi¬ 
cators two brothers, called respectively Volusms Iremeus and 
Voluskis Arimankis. The name Arimanius is peculiar; it is 
possible that the Volusii were of Persian descent, and familiar 
therefore with the Eastern deity Arimahn. 
We now turn to the headless mysterious divinity. Dr. 
Hiihner considers that we have in it a representation of Time 
—^on or ^vuni—and he compares it with a number of similar 
figures, discovered abroad, which are thought to set forth the 
same deity. The characteristics of these figures are a naked 
form with a lion’s head, and q. serpent coiling round the body. 
Sometimes it has two wings on the shoulders, sometimes two 
more on the legs. It holds a staff in one hand, often resem¬ 
bling a measuring rod; in the other hand there is a bunch of 
keys. All these points are symbolical of Eastern worship, and 
some of them have been introduced into Christianity. The 
snake represents the mingling ages or eternity; the rod, the 
power to take the measui’e of time ; the keys, the opening and 
closing of all things, particularly of the year ; the lion’s head 
signifies the strength and the devoTuing power of time. 
To turn to the sculpture itself, which is standing beside you. 
Dr. Hiihner considers that it had a lion’s head, and that the 
belt around the waist is an unsuccessful eflPort of a provincial 
sculptor to represent a serpent. In the right hand, or near it, 
is a portion of the measuring rod, in the left are the keys. 
The figure has two wings, and Dr. Hiihner supposes that in 
the right hand corner, at the end of the label, was the word 
JEvo or something like it. At the head of his paper, by the 
side of our figure from York, he gives a lithograph of a stone 
in the museum at Bonn, which does little more than express 
the very part which the York sculptiue wants, I mean the 
lion’s head. A more hideous looking creature it is difficult to 
imagine. 
In the course of the present siiimner a fragment of a 
tablet of limestone was discovered on the Mount, but most 
