In JHS lxxx go I reproduced the upper part of Montfaucon's engraving showing the statue of a Gallus, which I (and others) supposed to be lost. I am indebted to Mr C. C. Vermeule for drawing my attention to his ‘Notes on a New Edition of Michaelis’ in AJA lix, from which I learnt (p. 89) that the statue was in the Earl of Pembroke's collection at Wilton, and that it was of Severan or late Antonine date. Mr Vermeule's reference to Michaelis enabled me to trace its history a little farther back.

In 1731, twelve years after its publication by Montfaucon, Cary Creed reproduced it in a volume of etchings after sculptures in the Pembroke Collection, and inscribed the etching ‘Attis, Cybele's high Priest Cloathed as a Woman it is grav'd in Montfaucon without the Head my Lord having bought it before with ye Mazarine Collection’. It is hardly plain whether head or torso or both came from the Mazarin Collection, but the head crowned by a Phrygian cap is plainly alien. Lord Pembroke kindly told me that the head was much restored, and that with it the figure was 5 ft. 9 in. in height.