In 1857, J. F. Boudon de Saint-Amans published in Agen an illustrated octavo Essai sur les antiquités de Lot-et-Garonne. On page 198 of that work the bronze figure which we here reproduce (plate XIII) is thus described:“Petite statue de Jupiter en bronze trouvée à Saint-Côme près d'Aiguillon. On ne saurait voir en ce genre rien de plus parfait que cette figurine … Cette petite statue, haute de 6 pouces, dont les yeux et les extrémités du pénis sont en or, appartient à M. le vicomte de Vivens, membre du Conseil général du departement de Lot-et-Garonne.”On plate 22 there is a very poor outline engraving which, not knowing then the original, I caused to be reproduced in the Répertoire de la statuaire, vol. ii (1898), p. 10, no. 2.Three years later, in July 1901, the statuette, then belonging to the Marquis de Poyen, at Barry near Clairac (Lot-et-Garonne), was offered for sale to the national museums. I secured it for Saint-Germain at the low price of 1,250 francs (£50) and now publish it for the first time in a manner worthy of its interest and excellence.
Immunogenicity and molecular characterisation of staphylococcal haemolysin (Plate XIII)
