This is the first edition, translation and commentary of the chapter on Minerva (identified with Pallas and Bellona) of Caro’s treatise on the ancient gods of Hispania, which is pre served in Oxford in an autograph manuscript of the Bodleian Library (Ms. D’Orville 47.), The author tells us of an island consecrated to Miner va on the Levantine coast according to Avienus, and of a sanctuary in a city near Malaga according to Strabo. He copies seven Latin Inscriptions, although just those from Barcelona, Niebla and Los Molares are authentic, offering some valuable transcriptions of the latter two, He comments the images of the goddess In a misinterpreted coin of the city of Searo, and in an oil lamp, which he explains in the light of a Greek e...