7. Dedication to Venus Genetrix Augusta - Hispalis

Ficha

Code

7

Title

7. Dedication to Venus Genetrix Augusta - Hispalis

Text of the inscription

Veneri · Genetrici / Augustae / Valeria ·Valentina / Valeri · Valentis · fìlia · / ad cultum · operis / a patre · optumo · exornati / in · honorem · corporis / oleariorum · d(onum) · d(at)

Other name

Veneri Genetrici Augustae Valeria Valentina Valeri Valentis filia ad cultum operis a patre optumo exornati in honorem corporis oleariorum donum dat

Textual source

HEp 10, 2000, 577

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Onomastic attribute 1

Institutions and individuals involved

3

Institutions

collegium oleariorum

Dedicant/s

Other individuals

Chronology

147 AE aprox.

Terminus post quem

138 AE

Dating criteria

Prosopography

Location

Topographic context

Discovered during works in a house basement in Argote de Molina street, in an original context, i.e. Roman, but in a secondary situation, perhaps fallen into a hole or sinkhole in the pavement, once the building to which it belonged was ruined.

Place of conservation

Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Sevilla

Condition of conservation

En museo

Hep

HEp 10, 2000, 577

Support

Base

Size (cm)

105 x 80 x 65 cm, epigraphic field 62 x 58 cm , letters from 6.3 to 4 cm

Material

AE

AE 2002, 716

Further bibliography

Alicia M. Canto (2004), "Venus Genetrix Augusta y los dioses de Hispalis en la donación familiar de un diffusor olearius hacia 146 d.C.". Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología 30, 141-152. [article with images]

EDH

Last update

01/06/2021

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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DEPHis