481. Dedication to Balaesu* Cileae? - Alcántara

Ficha

Code

481

Title

481. Dedication to Balaesu* Cileae? - Alcántara

Text of the inscription

Balaesu(s) / Cileae / animo / libe(n)s vo(t)/u(m) Victoria / solvit

Other name

Balaesus Cileae animo libens votum Victoria solvit
Balaesus Caii libertus Eaeco

Textual source

Disputed, see HEpOL 20348.

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Balaesu*
It is possible that the onomastic sequence of the god is other. Reading problems

Onomastic attribute 1

Cilea

Institutions and individuals involved

1?

Dedicant/s

Victoria (from Alcántara)
In some readings Balaecu(s) is consider the dedicant.

Location

Alcántara

Topographic context

It comes from the depopulated village of Aldea on the Galapero farm and was there in 1975.

Hep

HEp 14, 2005, 80.

Support

Altar

Size (cm)

53 x 27 x 17

Material

Granite

AE

AE 1977, 428

Further bibliography

M. Beltrán Lloris, ”Aportaciones a la epigrafía y arqueología romana de Cáceres”, Caesaraugusta 39-40 (1975-1976), 84-85 n. 57 with photo.
J. Salas Martín, J. A. Redondo Rodríguez y J. L. Sánchez Abal, ”Un sincretismo religioso en la Península Ibérica: Júpiter Solutorio-Eaeco”, Norba 4, 1983, 252.
Vallejo Ruiz, J. Mª. Antroponimia Indígena de La Lusitania Romana,. Anejos de Veleia, Series Minor 23. Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2005, p. 280

EDH

016856

EDCS

09301018

HEpOL

20348

Image

HEpOL 20348

Last update

08/06/2022

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
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