Contents

The Sanctuary of Sulis Minerva at Bath: a brief review 1 Barry Cunliffe Roman or Celtic Temples? A case study 15 Peter D. Home Cult and Ritual Practices at Argentomagus, Indre, France 25 Isabelle Fauduet Religious Cults at Roman Godmanchester 29 H. J. M. Green What the Britons required from the gods as seen through the pairing of Roman 57 and Celtic deities and the character of votive offerings Graham Webster Jupiter, Taranis and the Solar Wheel 65 Miranda Green The Goddess Epona: concepts of sovereignty in a changing landscape 77 Laura S. Oaks The London Hunter-God 85 Ralph Merrifield Faunus at Thetford: an early Latian deity in Late Roman Britain 93 Catherine Johns Words and Meanings: ACCIPE ET VTERE FELIX 105 Eve Harris The Concept of Genius in Roman Britain 113 Joan P. Alcock The Cult of Bacchus in Roman Britain 135 Valerie J. Hutchinson Christian and Pagan hopes of salvation in Romano-British mosaics 147 E. IV. Black Ita intellexit numine inductus tuo: some personal interpretations of deity in Roman 159 religion Martin Henig Iconography and Context: ab oriente ad occidentem 171 J. R. Harris Roman Venus: public worship and private rites 179 G. Lloyd-Morgan Nero-Helios 189 Oleg Neverov The Pantheon: temple or rotunda? 195 Paul Godfrey and David Hemsoll The Cult and Sancutary of Diana Nemorensis 211 T. F. C. Blagg Interpretatio Romana: the Semitic populations of Syria and Mesopotamia 221 Malcolm A. R. Col ledge The procession-House of the Great Hermaion at Hermopolis Magna 231 D. M. Bailey Christians, Jews and Pagans in the Acts of the Apostles 239 Grahame Soffe Pagan Priesthoods in the Later Empire 257 Alan Wardman Index 263