DIS
MANIB M COCCEI
NONNI ANNOR V
HIC SITVS EST
(Diis Manibus Marci Cocceii Nonni annorum quinque his situs est); and another bearing the inscription—
D M
YLAE ALVM
NI KARIS
SIMI VIXI[T]
[A]N XIII CL S[E]
VERVS INL ...
(Diis Manibus Ylæ alumni carissimi. Vixit annos tredecim. Claudius Severus....)
Roman Altars from Old Penrith.
Among the antique sculpture contained in the galleries is the Venus from the temple to that goddess at Cnidus. The exquisite torso, the remainder of the figure being restored, was from the Stowe collection; and it is undoubtedly an example of the purest Greek, of an age “when Art was a religion.”