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The Celtic Janiform god
gold statcres and qudirter -sfuteres struck by the Mediomatrici, whose
Fig. 209.
Fig. 210.
chief town was Divodurum (Mettis,7^/^/5')on the Moselle, have for ob-
verse type a beardless Janiform head (figs. 21 1—213)^ And coppers
Fig. 211.
issued by Cunobelinus at Camulodunum {Colchester) have on one
side a similar Janiform head, on the other a sow seated beneath an
oak(.?)-tree (fig. 214)1 Thismay be taken to imply that the Danubian,
Rhenic, and British Celts recognised a god facing both ways. Such
a god might appear in Roman dress as the lanus Gemimis^ of
1 E. Muret—M. A. Chabouillet op. cit. p. 207 nos. 8933 ff., H. de la Tour op. cit.
nos. 8933, 8937, 8944 pi. 36 ( = my figs. 211— 213), R. Forrer op. cit. p. 346 fig. 543.
^ .Sir
J. Evans The Coins of the Ancient Britons London 1864 p. 344 fif- pi. 13, i
( = my fig. 214).
^ Corp. inscr. Lat. iii no. 5092 «= Dessau Tnscr. Lat. sel. no. 3319 (found near
Wolfsberg at the foot of Mt. Sauajpe in Carinthia, now at Klagenfurt) lano Gelmino etc.
See further infra p. 338 n. 3 fin.