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Latina: Penates apud Devisas in Belgio Nostro Effossi Anno 1714, Tabula v.


Deum quendam ignotum

7. Long: Unc: iv. Pondo ℥vi ss.

Notas: Nobilissimo Principi Frederico Georgii ffilio Celsissimi, Georgii Nep: Augustissimi, Caesari destinato, M. Britanniae spei, Delicijs, Animaeq. desideratissimae, Penates hosce, Annos sesquimille Terra absconditos, voti e Obsequij sui Pignus, sacrari voluit, Guilh: Musgrave, G. F. Iscanus.

Penates hi Guil: Cadby, apud Devisas Olitoris, Aere incisi, et Charta Imperiali impressi, veneunt a Bibliopolis Knapton Londiniensi, Clements Oxoniensi, et Yeo Exoniensi. MDCCXVII.



English: "Penates (Household Gods) Dug Up at Devises in Our Belgium in the Year 1714, Table 5.


Some unknown God

"7. Length: 4 in. Weight: 6 oz."

Notes: "To the Most Noble Prince Frederick, the destined Royal Heir, Great Britain's hope, Delight, and most yearned for Spirit, son of the Most High George and grandson of the Most August George, William Musgrave, Fellow (?) of Exeter College, Oxford, of his own will and in Obedience to his Oath wished these here Penates, hidden by the Earth for 1500 years, to be dedicated.

"These Penates [found] by William Cadby, Gardener at Devizes, engraved on Brass and printed on Imperial Paper, are available for sale at the Booksellers Knapton in London, Clements in Oxford, and Yeo in Exeter. 1717."

The 2nd figure in Musgrave's 2nd illustration of the Southbroom Hoard discovered outside Devizes, Wiltshire, in 1714. This copper alloy statue is now held by the British Museum (1811,0309.6). Durham categorized it as #337. Musgrave and Moll left it unidentified, but scholars now think it shows a Mother Goddess, possibly related to Danu, Anu, or other Celtic figures. Both Musgrave and Moll presented her head as wrapped in a kind of headscarf or turban, although the statue actually depicts her hair pulled back into a high bun. She wears a tunic and a pleated skirt rather longer and more modest than those on other figures from the hoard. She holds her hands around a wide belly, a pose shared by a few other surviving statues of the goddess.

Date (engraving); 1719 (book)
Source Antiquitates Britanno-Belgicae, Praecipue Romanae, Figuris Illustratae..., Vol. I: De Belgio Britannico, Cap. XII
Author William Musgrave
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