592. Dedication to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus - Ad Sorores/ Norba Caesariana

[I]ovi · Opt/[im(o)] · Max(imo) /[C]alpurn/[iu]s · Heroti/[mus] · v(otum) · s(olvit) · l(ibens) · m(erito)

Code

592

Other name

Iovi Optimo Maximo Calpurnius Herotimus votum solvit libens merito

Textual source

Several variants, HEp 6, 1996, 225

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Iuppiter

Onomastic attribute 1

Optimus

Maximus

Institutions and individuals involved

1

Dedicant/s

[C]alpurn[iu]s Heroti[mus]

Chronology

3rd century CE?

Location

Casas de Don Antonio

Norba Caesarina - Cáceres

Topographic context

It was found in the Dehesa de Santiago de Bencáliz, not far from the fence that closes the estate, probably around 1984. Epigraphic corpora tend to locate the place in term of Casas de Don Antonio due to its vicinity, however, the dehesa lies in the municipality of Cáceres.
The Roman Ad Sorores mansio has traditionally been located in this place, next to the Italica-Asturica Augusta road.

Place of conservation

In 1993 he was still on the farm.

Condition of conservation

In private land/farm

Hep

HEp 1, 1989, 162 = HEp 2, 1990, 212 = HEp 3, 1993, 115 = HEp 6, 1996, 225 = HEp 16, 2007, 91 (disputed reading)

Support

Altar

Size (cm)

81 x 37 x 25

Material

Granite

AE

AE 1994, 876

Further bibliography

CILCaceres-04, 1308
M. García Figuerola, ”Inscripciones romanas de la Sierra de Gata”, Alcántara 17, 1989, 126-127, n.1.
M. García de Figuerola Paniagua, Arqueología romana y altomedieval de la Sierra de Gata (El Valle de Valverde. Provincia de Cáceres), Badajoz 1999, 159-160 n. 6.

EDCS

21900128

HEpOL

22637

Image

EDCS 21900128

Last update

02/05/2022

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)