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Two Romano-British Genii

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

J. M. C. Toynbee
J. M. C. Toynbee
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The Roman relief sculpture at Chedworth Manor, Gloucestershire (PL. XX A), discussed in this paper, was first brought to my attention by Dr Martin Henig of the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, and it is published here for the first time by kind permission of its owner, Mr J. D. F. Green. Traditionally brought to the Manor by the Knights of St John during their occupation of it in the Middle Ages, the relief was in position on an outer wall of the house some fifty years ago. But after World War II Mr Green moved it inside the house, where it now adorns one wall of the principal reception-room. At Mr Green's invitation I saw and studied it there.

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Britannia , Volume 9 , November 1978 , pp. 329 - 330
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Copyright © J. M. C. Toynbee 1978. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Kindly identified bv Mr H. P. Powell of the University Museum, Oxford.

2 E.g. J. M. C. Toynbee, Roman Medallions (1944), pl. 40, No. 3: cf. also No. 4; P. du Baurguet, Early Christian Art (1972), fig. on p. 15 (Athens National Museum).

3 RIB 1028.

4 Essays in Bristol and Gloucestershire History (1976), first two plates between pp. 140 and 141.

5 JRS xvi (1926), p. 232Google Scholar, pl. 30; JBAA ser. 3, xxxvi (1973), P. 14: pl. I fig. I.

6 J. M. C. Toynbee, Art in Roman Britain (1963)) pp. 139-140, No. 32, pl. 25.

7 Recueil général de bas-reliefs, etc. de la Gaule romaine iii (1910), pp. 347–348Google Scholar, Nos. 2478, 2479.

8 For the cornucopia as the regular attribute of provincial sculptural representations of the Genius, see H. Kunckel, Der römische Genius (1974), pls. 67-89.