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Nearly fifty years have passed since Hogarth wrote, and it would be useful and pleasing to comment afresh on the votive offerings from the Artemisium, this treasure of gold and silver, of ivory and amber, with a touch of the gynaikonitis and the East. My purpose is narrower: a study of the objects from the Basis, and narrower still, their chronological implications for the date of the coins found with them. These coins are the only ones from the excavation found in what might be called a closed context. They can in principle be later than their latest co-finds; they can be earlier than the earliest, but it is reasonable to assume that they are contemporary with the majority of the objects associated with them.A few objects were found outside the Basis under stratigraphical conditions which make their inferior limit of time almost as certain as that of the objects from the Basis, and many pieces from outside resemble Basis types so closely that they can with certainty be dated to the same period (Hogarth p. 235): I think it, however, prudent and safe to leave these, where possible, on one side and to keep to the specimens from the Basis.The objects from the Basis are almost all of them of the seventh century B.C., a very few are later, and one piece only is possibly of the eighth century, pl. 4. 34. It is silver, gold-plated, ‘most probably detached from a hilt’ (Hogarth p. 114). The description gives no clear idea of technique and purpose: it is too small fora hilt. The decoration consists of engraved zigzags and compass-drawn ‘wheels’: these are no indication of an early date, as they still occur as border-decoration of the chiton of an acroterion figure from the Acropolis, but the whole somehow recalls those aimless designs on Late Geometric bronze sheets from Argos (Waldstein pls. 103, 104).

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Roman Studies.Since I932 rock-carvings have been coming to light in the Val Camonica, the valley through which the Oglio flows before debouching into the Lago d'Iseo; they were published by Marro and Battaglia' and recently, thanks to the initiative of Leo Frobenius' ' Institut fur Kulturmorphologie,' their number has been considerably increased. F. Altheim in two articles 2 has tried to connect them with Scandinavian rock-carvings and has drawn from them weighty conclusions for the history of early Europe. I must leave it to competent scholars to check Mr. Altheim's results where Scandinavia, Pre-Italic dialects, runes, terremare and many other interesting subjects are concerned which are hors de ma vitrine. I should only like to draw attention to some pictures which are more or less closely connected with the Celts.Plate xi, no. i, the largest of all rock-carvings in Val Camonica, 0.95 m. high, according to Mr. Altheim's convincing interpretation depicts the Celtic stag-god Cernunnus ; his feet are turned inwards, a common feature in drawings by primitive men and by children and recurring here, for example, in the man shown in Altheim's fig. 4. His arms are raised ; his right hand seems to hold some small indistinct object ; round the right elbow hangs a torc.3 He differs from the other representations of Cernunnus in that he is not squatting in a Buddhalike attitude, 4 but standing upright and clad in a long garment. Altheim says that a snake is twisted round his left arm and swings downwards: this would make a good pendant to the god on the silver cauldron from Gundestrup,5 who holds a serpent in his left hand. But, though this part is badly damaged and two photographs, which I owe to Professor Frobenius, differ in detail here, I believe that another reading would do more justice to the traces preserved-a second.torc round the left upper arm, and below it a bird, with its long curved beak just under the lower end of the torc, turned to the 1 Marro, I1 grandioso monumento paleoetnologico di Val Camonica,' Atti della R. Ac. di Torino lii, I932; 13 Altheim, fig. 6. 14 The Grumentum rider is not, as he believes, a work of the middle, but of the very early sixth century B.C.; see Jantzen, Bronzewerkstdtten in Grossgriechenland und Sizilien 30. I do not know if he is Tarentine but he is at any rate Italiote. 15 See the busts on the bronzes from Waldalgesheim, Altertiiuser unserer beidn. Vorzeit iii, i, pl. z; Ebert, Reallexikon der V7orgescbicbte xiv, pl. 57a. 16 Dechelette, Manuel d'arcbdologie, fig. 66ir 3.

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The objects published here with the kind permission of Dr. Jacob Hirsch are said to have been found at ‘Seki Bazar between Makli and Elmali’: the place is probably to be identified with the village Sekia, shown on the map in O. Benndorf and G. Niemann, Reisen im südwestlichen Kleinasien i, four miles north of the site of Oinoanda. Sekia lies about half-way along the road between Makri (Makli is unknown and is probably a mispronunciation of Makri) and Elmali. The internal evidence of the inscriptions confirms that the find must come from somewhere in SW Asia Minor. The find consists of two inscribed plaques with busts and fragments of a wreath. We first describe the objects, then comment on the inscriptions, and finally discuss the problems which arise from a study of them.