8. Dedication to Minerva (Augusta?) - Hispalis

Ficha

Code

8

Title

8. Dedication to Minerva (Augusta?) - Hispalis

Text of the inscription

Miner[vae Aug(ustae)] / Valeria · Qu[arta?] /Valeri · Valentis [filia] / ad · cultum · operi[s] / a · patre · optumo · exorna[ti] / in · honorem · corporis / oleariorum d(onum) · d(at)

Other name

Minervae Augustae Valeria Quarta Valeri Valentis filia ad cultum operis a patre optumo exornati in honorem corporis oleariorum donum dat

Textual source

Alicia M. Canto (2004)

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Minerva

Onomastic attribute 1

Reconstructed
Augustus -a

Institutions and individuals involved

3

Institutions

collegium oleariorum

Dedicant/s

Valeria Quarta

Other individuals

M. Valerius Valens

Chronology

147 AE aprox.

Terminus post quem

138 AE

Dating criteria

Prosopography

Location

Hispalis / Colonia Iulia Romula Hispalis - Seville

Topographic context

Found during excavations at the old Dar al-Imara Gate of the Alcázar of Seville (Patio de las Banderas), and was reused as a paving slab after previous reuse as a cymatium from a cornice in the Visigothic period.

Place of conservation

Museo Arqueológico Provincial de Sevilla

Hep

HEp 10, 2000, 577

Support

Base

Size (cm)

105 x 80 x 65 cm? letters 6.5-3.5 cm

Material

Marble

AE

AE 2001, 1187. AE 2002, 0715

Further bibliography

Tabales Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel (2001): «Algunas aportaciones arqueológicas para el conocimiento urbano de Hispalis»,Habis 32, 387-423.
Tabales Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel (2002), «Investigaciones en la primitiva puerta del Alcázar de Sevilla», AAA 1999, II, 195-211.
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.

EDH

046692

EDCS

23900239

HEpOL

5961

Last update

01/06/2021

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Conjuntos de fichas
DEPHis