An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus : lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters : one from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the other from a person residing at Isernia : to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients / By R.P. Knight.

Date:: 1786

Credit: An Account of the remains of the worship of Priapus : lately existing at Isernia, in the kingdom of Naples; in two letters : one from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the other from a person residing at Isernia : to which is added, A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connexion with the mystic theology of the ancients / By R.P. Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ >>5 ] fonably fuppofed, that we have dill the ruins of the identical Temple defcribed by Hecat^us, who, being an Afiatic Greek, might have received his information from fome Phoenician Merchant, who had vihted the interior parts of Britain when trading there for Tin. Macrobius mentions a Temple of the fame kind and form upon Mount Zilmissus in Thrace, dedicated to the Sun under the title of Bac- chus Sebazius.^ The large Obelifcs of ftone found in many parts of the North, fuch as thofe at Rud- sTONE,-f and near Burroughbridge in Yorkshire,J belong to the fame religion ; obelifcs being, as Pliny obferves, facred to the Sun, whofe rays they reprefented both by their form and name.§ An ancient Medal of Apollonia in Illyria, belonging to the Mufeum of the late Dr. Hunter, has the head of Apollo P 2 crowned have omitted it; and I much doubt whether either be right in their Plans of the Cell, which feems, as in other Druidical Temples, to have been meant for a Circle, but incorre6lly executed. * Sat, L.ib. I. G. i8. •f Arch^eologia, Vol.V. Now called the Devil’s Arrows. See Stukeley’s Itin, Vol. 1. Tab. 90. § Hijl. Nat. Lib. xxxvi. Sec. 14.

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