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THE 
MONTHLY 
No. 203.] 
SEPTEMBER 1, 1810. 
MAGAZINE. | 
[2 of Vox. 30. 
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Influence and Celebrity, the mot extenfively circwlated Mifcellany will repay with the greateft Efie’ the 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS wpon the TOWNLEY STATUES, 
in the BRITISH MUSEUM. 
Rev. THOMAS- DUDLEY FOSBROOKE, 
M.A. FvA.S. 
(Continued from page 525, vol. 29). 
(Second Room ). 
No. 1. COLOSSAL head of Mi- 
nerva Sospita. It is re- 
stored below. The neck and face are 
very fine. Juno Sospita is usual, but 
_ Minerva Sospita does not occur, however 
obvious the allusion, 1p any great author 
of Musea, or lists of the appellations of 
Minerva, as this writer can find. Add 
too, that Hygrea, Salus, and Minerva Me- 
dica, are represented sometimes alike; 
witness the two candelabra of the Bar- 
berini palace, &c. Minerva Medica, 
. Salutifera, Hygiea, is common in Winc- 
_klemann, &c.&c. &c. The term Sospita 
is limited to Juno, who, under the title, 
_ had a famous temple at Danuvium; abd 
if the term Minerva Sospita is vindicated 
by any particular instance, (there are 
mlone upen the silver coins of Geta) it is 
so obscure and local, as not to exculpate 
the application to a general figure of | 
_ phora was one of the Caryatides which 
Minerva Salutaris, &c. 
No. 2. a funeral urn, ornamented 
with equestrian and pedestrian comba- 
tants. This custom of combats at fu- 
nerals, was, as far as concerns gladiators 
at least, introduced to supersede the 
barbarous practice of sacrificing prisoners 
of war, at the pile of those who had died 
in battle. Our chief antiquaries note, 
that the laws of Solon only allowed such 
works to be bestowed upon sepulciral 
monuments as one man could do in 
three days; and therefore there is a 
striking inferiority in execution to the 
~‘bas-reliefs on friezes and pediments, so 
far at least as relates to Greek works | 
(D’ Hancarville,) ; tombs and urns being 
made by common sculptors. , Governor | 
Pownall (Provincia Romana, p. 69, 70) 
says, that sarcophagi, &c. were sold 
ready-made by statuaries; and the pat- 
tern fixed upon at option. But this was 
Montery Mae, No. 203, ; 
By the.. 
certainly not a general rule; for of the 
bas-relief of the tomb of Livilla Har 
monia in Boissard, whom the’ epitaph 
styles, incomparabilis pudicitie et mo- 
destia singuluris, the subject_is a rape. 
Besides, many figures are portraits of the 
deceased, This funeral urn evidently 
belonged to a persov of rank or note. 
No. 3. .One of the feet, or supports, of 
an ancient-Tripod table. The toes and 
nails are very fine. The learned will re- 
collect the insane expense of the Romans 
in, ‘tables, (Phn: xii. 15.) The term 
Tripod-table, is quite objectionable. It 
should be one of the feet of the stand of 
a Monopodium, or table of one prop, the 
three feet being conjunct. They were, 
as appears by Horace, Martial, Juvenal, 
Pliny, and Seneca, the most.expensive 
tables, and used for meals. The mono- 
podia were first introduced by Cn. 
Manlius, in his triumph on account of 
the conquest of Asia, (whence their 
origin). A.U.C. 567. Pin. 34, 3. 
No. 4. A Canephora. ‘This statue is 
universally admired, and it seems that 
the fiyst sculptors worked upon Cédné« 
phore, (Plin. xxxvi. 5. Cic, in Verr. iv). 
viz. Scopas and Polycletus. -This cane-~ 
supported a temple ef Bacchus. Mont- 
faucon (i. p.2. 6.2. c.10), confines the 
Canephore to the worship of Ceres, which 
is wrong; but as the union of worship in 
Ceres and Bacchus, especially in Sicily, 
is alluded to by Virgil and Cicero, and 
this was a column of a temple of Bacchusy 
it should -rather be called a Canephora 
[of Ceres] one of the Caryatides which 
supported ihe pértico of a small temple 
dedicated [to the united worship of Ceres 
and] Bacchus. The frequency of this 
united worship was quite common. See 
Montfaucon.. The drapery of this cas 
nephora is quite different from those in 
the last author, z.p.2. 0.2, c. 10, and 
it. p.a. 6.3. c.18.. The ancients were 
in the habits of platéing their clothes, and 
_then putting them in a press (Winckelm. 
Art, iv..5), and though strait folds are 
deemed @ test of antiquity, I apprehend 
O that 
