in antiquity, were single statues, composed of the figures, or symbols, of several different divinities together. Father Joubert, who calls them panthea, and who has remarked them sometimes on medals, says their heads are most commonly adorned with the symbols or attributes belonging to several gods. An instance of this appears in a medal of Antoninus Pius; which represents Serapis by the bushel it bears; the Sun by the crown of rays; Jupiter Ammon by the rams horns; Pluto by the large beard; and Aesculapius by the serpent twisted in his hand. M. Baudelot, in a dissertation on the Lares, observes, that the panthea had their origin from the superstition of those, who, taking several gods for the protectors of their houses, united them all in the same statue, by adorning it with the several symbols proper to each of these deities.