LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
Front cover: Relief showing Vitis, the personification of the vine; it 
belonged to the frieze of a Roman funerary monument erected 
near the Mosel river. This stone block was hollowed out and 
re-used as a sarcophagus of a Frankish chieftain in Emerange. 
Gallo-Roman Period 
1 View of a room dedicated to the «Highway Department» 
2 Epona, goddess of horses, horsemen and grooms 
(Medingen) 
3 Epona, the horse-goddess (Contern) 
4 Iron sandal (to protect a horse’s lame foot), bronze 
horsebells and harness-accessory (from various places) 
Vulcan, the god of metalworking (Lenningen) 
The blacksmith’s tools (from varıous places) 
Compasses, set-square, plummet and stylus for writing 
(from various places) 
3 Carpenter's tools (from various places) 
9 Agricultural and viticultural implements 
(from various places) 
10 Base with four stone-carved deities; it carried a column 
crowned by a riding Jupiter and a giant with serpent 
tail instead of legs, a «Jupiter-giant-column» (Leudelange) 
11 Votive inscription on a bronze tablet, dedicated to the 
local deities Lenus Mars, Veraudunus and Inciona - 
(Widdenberg) 
12 Panther killing a swan, chariot-adornment of bronze 
(Widdenberg) 
13 Dancing nymph (Septfontaines) 
14 Capitoline she-wolf, suckling the twin brothers Romulus 
and Remus, the founders of Rome; from a grave-stone 
(Arlon) 
14a The God Apollo (Mamer) 
15 Reconstruction of a «Jupiter-giant-column»: base with 
four deities (Amberloup) and the riding Jupiter (Dalheim) 
16-17 Model house and temple in stone, used as household 
shrines (Titelberg) 
18 Aedicula showing in a niche a sitting Mother-goddess, 
symbol of fertility 
19 Lamps, filler for pouring oil and candlestick of clay 
(from various places) 
20 Oil lamp of bronze with a piece of chain and a hook for 
suspension; this hook also served as an instrument for 
trimming the wick (Ellange) 
21 Head of Rosmerta, the female partner of Mercury, the 
god of commerce and manual skill (Dalheim) 
22 A man’s head, representing probably the Emperor Septi- 
mius Severus, carved in Italian marble («Tossenberg» 
between Strassen and Mamer) 
23 A man's head (Titelberg) 
24 A lion's head, from a funerary monument (?) (Schuttrange) 
25 Mirror of tin-plated bronze and ivory comb (Steinfort) 
26 Silver ring with inserted intaglio (i.e. a carved gem) 
(Altrier) 
27 Funerary relief, showing a lady at her toilet: one maid is 
dressing her hair, the other is holding a mirror (former 
collection P.E. de Mansfeld) 
28-35 Eight brooches of hronze, used instead of buttons; all 
of them are zoomorphic (i.e. having animal form), most 
of them are enamelled, nr. 32 and 33 are silver-plated 
as well (Titelberg and Dalheim) 
36 Steelyard of bronze for measuring weight; at the bottom 
two weights in the form of an acorn and a foot (Dalheim) 
37 A cooper’s workshop: at the top several tools; at the 
bottom wine-barrels are being made by local cask 
makers (Berbourg) 
38 Funerary relief with native tenants paying rent at a 
counter (Arlon) 
39 Part of the frieze from a rich wine-grower’s funerary 
monument in the Mosel valley. It shows the vine-goddess 
Vitis, from whose legs spring vines, two cupids aad 
herons gathering grapes (cf. front cover) 
Grape-harvester in his vineyard, bending over a tub; the 
vines are supported by stakes (this block probably 
belonged to the same monument as that of Vitis (nr. 39), 
near Remerschen 
Roman glass vessels from four centuries (Hellange, 
Junglinster, Steinfort) 
42 Footed glass-jug with handle and zigzag collar (Steinfort) 
43 Footed Beaker: transparent, light green glass with applied 
thread ornament (Junglinster) 
t4 Terracotta figurines: votive and funerary offerings, 
presents, toys, etc. (Martelange, Altrier. Dalheim, Nieder- 
wampach, etc.) 
45 Terracotta figurine representing a Mother-goddess 
(Altrier) 
46 Terracotta figurine of a Mother-goddess, stamped at the 
back 1 IDELIS1ECIT (Titelberg) 
47 Monsters of the deep, from a funerary monument (Mersch)