Votive Altar Research Articles

Tres aras votivas procedentes de Cerezo (Cáceres) y una nueva gentilitas en Lusitania

Estudiamos aquí tres altares votivos hallados en Cerezo (Cáceres), dos inéditos y otro ya citado a principios del siglo XX. Un altar es de interpretación muy dudosa y los otros dos estaban dedicados a dioses lusitanos. Estos tres monumentos, un ara anepígrafa y un quinto altar ya descubierto hace décadas proceden de un pequeño cerro situado junto al cementerio de la localidad, donde pudo existir un santuario en época romana.

Nuevos documentos epigráficos del valle del Duero: un altar dedicado a Plutón y una estela funeraria <i>rubricata</i>

This note presents two epigraphic documents. One is a votive altar consecrated as Dis Pater to the hell god Pluto. This was found in the West part of Soria province, between the towns of Clunia and Uxama, and affords an eloquent example from a cult scarcely documented in the epigraphy of Hispania. The other is an small funerary limestone with still keeps evidences of rubricatio . Up to now this is the only inscription related to the Roman villa at Almenara de Adaja (Valladolid).

Le sanctuaire des Crêtes de Mabousquet (Montmirat, Gard)

ENG : Place of worship place, votive vases, ancient coins, fibulae, rings, terra-cota statuettes, oil lamps, votive altars. Latin inscriptions.

Un enclos cultuel sur la berge du Vidourle à Ambrussum (Villetelle, Hérault)

During the 1 st c. BC, evidence of cuit practices appear near the banks of the Vidourle river, probably next to a trenched enclosure. They include a crémation area associated with deposits of votive vases, coins, fibulas and food offerings. Some décades after the creation of the road station about 30 BC, these practices are carried on within a walled enclosure that is set up around an altar by the middle of the Augustan period and enlarged about 25 AD. The votive deposits, the nature of which changes (disappearance of the fibulas, appearance of votive altars and of lamps), continue until the end of the lst c, even after the ruin of the enclosure. This original cuit site, certainly connected to the nearby river, could accommodate at least one divinity of the Roman Pantheon, Fortuna.

Nueva interpretación de una inscripción votiva de Monroy (Cáceres)

The present paper offers a new interpretation about the votive altar found in the Monroy castle (Caceres) three decades ago. We consider that the theonym cited in the inscription is Bandi with an unknown apellative.

Pedestals as ‘altars’ in Roman Asia Minor

AbstractThe Greek wordbomosusually means ‘altar’, but in inscriptions of the Roman period it sometimes refers to statue bases and other forms of support, where the meaning ‘altar’ is not appropriate. Many scholars believe that in addition to its normal meaning of cult or votive altar and (by extension) funerary altar,bomoscould also mean a pedestal, socle or platform in general. This paper examines the use of the termbomosin Roman Asia Minor for statue bases, for pedestals for sarcophagi, ash chests and columns, and for other structures which are not altars, concentrating particularly on their shapes. It concludes that in all these cases the element calledbomoshad the shape of a normal type of altar, and that in many cases (but not all) it also carried some of the symbolic value of an altar.

El culto a Nabia en Hispania y las diosas polifuncionales indoeuropeas

Las inscripciones relativas a Nabia en Hispania muestran algunas particularidades que la diferencian del resto de divinidades femeninas. Es la única diosa constatada en toda la amplia región situada al norte del río Duero y se alude a ella con epítetos que indican una tutela sobre núcleos poblados. Además, sus altares votivos han sido descubiertos en diversos contextos: elevaciones montañosas, fuentes o en el interior de castras. Finalmente, la diosa es citada dos veces, una de ellas sin epítetos y la otra con un apelativo, en una misma dedicación. Todos estos datos apuntan que Nabia tenía un carácter polifuncional, como algunas de las principales diosas del ámbito indo-iranio, romano o céltico insular.

À l'ombre d'Ag(h)eio : quelques réflexions à propos d'une divinité secondaire des Pyrénées Centrales

The study of the votive altar CIL, 13, 388 rediscovered at Asque (Baronnies, Hautes- Pyrénées) leads one to measure the limitations of any investigation of an epigraphic and religious nature within the boundaries of Southern Aquitaine and more precisely of central Pyrenees : the precise function of gods, only once referred to in most cases, and the precise datation of the inscribed monuments that celebrate them, elude us.

Juan Luis Vives: a humanistic medical educator.

One of the most emotive pieces of medicine's historical apocrypha places Dr. Thomas Linacre during the summer of 1499 on top of Little St. Bernard Pass. He is on his way home to England, but while looking wistfully back towards Italy he reverently builds a votive altar to his academic Sancta Mater. On turning his steps north he passes into history as England's premier physician and “restorer of learning,” a reputation which he was about to earn and which is still maintained almost five centuries later.

A Votive Altar from Upper Galilee

Previous articleNext article No AccessA Votive Altar from Upper GalileeA. S. HiramA. S. Hiram Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Bulletin of the American Society of Overseas Research Volume 167October 1962 A journal of the American Schools of Oriental Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/1355682 Journal History This article was published in the Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (1921-2021), which is continued by the Bulletin of the American Schools of Overseas Research (2022-present). PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

An Inscription recently found at Bordeaux

In the autumn of 1921 a scheme for the extension of the Exchange at Bordeaux led to the demolition of certain properties in the Rue du Pont-de-la-Mousque. During the operations the workmen encountered the original Roman wall of the town, built about A.D. 300 as a result of the great invasion of A.D. 276. The Chamber of Commerce, on the enlightened initative of their President, M. Étienne Huyard, decided to follow up the discovery by a systematic and careful excavation. The decision was justified by its happy results. Many interesting objects which had been utilized as building material were brought to light. These included a votive altar with an inscription which is of peculiar importance because of the light which it throws on the early relations of Gaul and Britain. A brief account of it may not be unwelcome to readers of the Journal of Roman Studies.

XXX. On Antiquarian Excavations and Researches in the Middle Ages. By Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., Hon. M.R.S.L., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &c., in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., F.R.S., Secretary

Among the ornaments of the splendid votive altar exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries last year by M. le colonel Theubet were three antique engraved gems, one of which, I believe, represented a head of Socrates, another a scarabæus, and the third a figure offering sacrifice at an altar. We have many proofs of the care with which ancient gems and cameos were sought and preserved in the middle ages, and it is probable that some of the most beautiful specimens known in modern times have been derived from the monastic treasuries. The superstition of a barbarous age regarded these relics as things endowed with magic qualities, which possessed healing and protective virtues that rendered them precious to the possessor. It appears that they were sometimes even regarded as natural productions, not formed by the hand of man. As early as the twelfth century (at least) we meet with regular inventories of such gems, with an enumeration of their virtues according to the figures they bore; and I now beg to lay before the society an inventory of this kind in Latin, which is the one of most common occurrence in manuscripts. It appears to me that it possesses considerable interest, and that it may be appropriately introduced by a few anecdotes from old writers illustrative of the excavations and researches amid the ruins of antiquity made by monks and others in the middle ages.