Houshold Gods Found at the Devizes

A depiction of the relief from an oil lamp and four ancient statues discovered in the Southbroom Hoard near Devizes, from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of "Wilt Shire" (Wiltshire), the seventh in his Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales. Moll follows Musgrave in identifying three of the figures as the Egyptian gods Apis and Anubis and Alexander the Great's horse Bucephalus. Modern scholars instead connect them to the three-horned bull, monstrous dogs, and horses of Celtic Romano-British and Gallo-Roman religion. The wolf or dog from the oil lamp relief may also refer to local mythology rather than Roman legend. Caption: These Houshold Gods in number 19 with a Medal of Alexander Severus were found at the Devizes An. 1714 and are supposed to have been bury'd there in 234. the Rest for want of Room are placed in Dorset and Hampshires yat are barren of Antiquities; we being unwilling to omit such great Curiosities. Notes: London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.

Date

1724

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

2,236 × 338 pixels

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