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Research Article

XXVII.—The Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli. By Sir Edmund Head, Bart. Communicated to the President through Professor Babbage, F.R.S.

Sir Edmund Head

There are three questions of an antiquarian character connected with the so-called Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli, which may be important in discussions relating to the geological phenomena exhibited by that celebrated building. These are:—

1st. Was it a temple of Serapis

2nd. Its probable age?

3rd. Can any light be thrown upon its history, or on the dates of the various changes of level?