. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 484 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, lb96. 216 Fig. ];!4. SCULPTURED HUMAN HEAD, LIMESTOME. Collected liy Presiilent Thomas Jef- ferson. Cat. No. 16S16, 4 natural size. Poinponius Mela says: ^ Testum autom rei, Quintum Metellam Cclereui adicit, eumque ita rettulisse coni- ineniorat: cum Galliiu proconsule pi-acessit, Indos (iiiosdnm a rege Botorum doiio sibi datos; unde in eas terras deveuissent requircMido cognossc, vi teinpestatum ex I
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. 484 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, lb96. 216 Fig. ];!4. SCULPTURED HUMAN HEAD, LIMESTOME. Collected liy Presiilent Thomas Jef- ferson. Cat. No. 16S16, 4 natural size. Poinponius Mela says: ^ Testum autom rei, Quintum Metellam Cclereui adicit, eumque ita rettulisse coni- ineniorat: cum Galliiu proconsule pi-acessit, Indos (iiiosdnm a rege Botorum doiio sibi datos; unde in eas terras deveuissent requircMido cognossc, vi teinpestatum ex Iiidieis icqnoribiis abreptos, eineusosque qu;u iutereraut, tandem iu Geriiianiiu litora exisse. Pliny records the same fact as follows: ^ Idem Nepos de septeiitrionali circuitu tradit Quinto Me- tello Celeri L. Afraiii in consulatu collegie, sed tuni Galliic proconsnli, Indos a rege Suevorum doiio datos, i\ni ex India commerci causa navigautes tempestatibus essent in Germaniam abrepti. The reports of tbese two writers agree in all essential parts, except the word Botorum in Pom- ponius Mela, and Suevorum in Pliny. Subject to this variation, the story of both, as reported by Cornelius Nepos, is that a king (of the Botes or of the Sueves) made a present to Quintius Metellus Celeri of an Indian or Indians, wlio, having been cast away at sea, were stranded on the coast of Germany. M. de Cueleneer, in his paper, " Type d'Indien du Nouveau Monde Kepresente sur un Bronze Antique du Louvre" (1890), goes profoundly into this branch of the subject, shows who Metellus was, where, and at what epoch he was in command, and how he might have received from one of the barbarian kings or tribes a present of slaves, which might have been Indian castaways from the coast of North America. He then recites the dis covery of the bronze situla in the Louvre, and by an examination of its workmanship and appearance con- cludes it was made in Italy during the first century before the Christian e
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