In the year 1653 an altar, supposed to have been dedicated to Jupiter, was dug up in Foregate-street, and which is preserved among the Arundelian marbles at Oxford. The back of it is plain: on the sides of it there are neatly sculptured a Patera, a cup which was used in their libations; and a Thuribulum, or censer for burning incense. The inscription, when perfect, was— I . O . M . TANARO T . ELVPIVS . GALER PRAESENS . GUNTA PRI . LEG . XX . V . V COMMODO . ET . LATERANO COS V . S . L . M. which Leigh, in his ‘Natural History of Lancashire and Cheshire,’ explains thus— JOVI OPTIMO MAXIMO TANARO TITUS ELUPIUS GALERIUS PRÆSENS GUBERNATOR PRINCIBUS LEGIONIS VICESSIMÆ VICTRICIÆ VALERIÆ COMMODO ET LATERANO CONSULIBUS, VOTUM SOLVIT LUBENS MERITO. In the year 1693, on the occasion of digging a place for a cellar in Eastgate-street, an altar was found buried amongst a great quantity of ashes, horns, and bones of several animals. On the back of the altar is represented a curtain with a festoon, over which is a globe surrounded with palm branches. On one side is a vase with two handles, from which issue acanthus leaves, supporting a basket of fruit; on the other side is a Genius with a Cornucopia in his left hand, and an altar on his right: on the top of the altar is a well sculptured human face within the Thuribulum. This altar was found with the inscription downwards, and near it were two medals, one of Vespasian, the other is assigned to Constantius Chlorus, son-in-law of Maximian. The inscription, with restorations, runs thus:— PRO . SAL . DOMIN ORUM . NN . INVI CTISSIMORVM AVGG . GENIO . LOCI FLAVIVS . LONGVS TRIB . MIL . LEG . XX . VV LONGINVS . FIL EIVS . DOMO SAMOSATA V . S Mr. Roach Smith says, “The persons who erected this altar were of Samosata, a town of Syria, celebrated as the birth-place of Lucian.” In 1779 an altar was found in Watergate-street, which is still preserved in the grounds of Oulton Park, the seat of Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart, M.P.: at the sides are the rod of Esculapius, the Cornucopiæ and rudder, a patera, urn, sacrificial knife, and other instruments. The inscription, with a few restorations, is as follows:—