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Title: Catalogue of the silver plate (Greek, Etruscan and Roman) in the British Museum
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944 Smith, Reginald A. (Reginald Allender), 1873-
Subjects: Silverwork, Ancient Art objects
Publisher: London : Printed by Order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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o. 11) ; cf. also those from Stony Stratford (Nos.237 ff.). With them were found a bronze figureof Mars (now in the British and MediaevalDepartment) and part of a bronze implement orutensil. Philosoph. Trans, xliii. (1746), p. 349, pis. i, 2 ;Royal Soc. Letters and Papers, Decade i, No. 356 ;MS. Min. Soc. of Antiqs. 1745, v. 2 and xxxiii, 303 ;Camden, Britannia, ed. Gough, 1789, i. p. 341 ;Lysons, Reliq. Brit. Rom. ii. (1813), pis. 40-42 ;Brayley and Britten, Beauties of England and Wales(1808), vii. p. 184 ; Annates encyclop. v. (1818), p.153, No. 84 ; Clutterbuck, Hist, of Herts, (1827), iii.p. 361 ; Cussans, Hist, of Herts (EdivinstreeHundred), 1872, p. 24 ; Victoria County Hist, ofHerts, iv. p. 149, plate 10 ; C. I. L. vii. 84-86. 230. Tablet. In the form of a leaf with broad pointedbase, tapering upwards and ending in threepoints,those at the side curving outwards, themiddle one lozenge-shaped ; rib up the middle,with oblique markings each side like the Jupiter pig. g^ = no. 230.
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6o CATALOGUE OF SILVER PLATE. Dolichenus tablets. Towards the base is an eared tablet on which is inscribed in punctured letters : MARTITOVTATI Tl CLAVDIVS PRIMVSATTII LIBERV-SL M- Marti Tout at i Ti. Claudius Primus Attn liber(tus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ubens) m(erito). Ht. 51-25 cm. Width 25-6 cm. C. I. L. vii. 84. Much broken ; point on right sidewanting. The second word of the inscription has also been read as loviaUs, but thereis no authority for such an epithet of ;\Iars. On the other hand, Mars Toutates is awell-known Celtic deity ; the name is also spelled Ttitates or Teutates. and is derivedfrom tenia, a people or state (see Holder, Altcellische Sprachsatz, ii. pp. 1805, 1896). Hewas worshipped with human sacrifices (Lucan, i. 444 ; Lactantius, Div. Inst. i. 21).Cf. C. I. L. iii. 5320; also Roscher, Le;r;7(0);, s.v. Mars, p. 2399 ; DArbois de Jubainville,Cycle Myth. Iilaud. p. 378. For Attius cf. C. I. L. vii. 27, 386, 390, 394. The arrange-ment of the freedmans name is unusual.

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