172. Dedication to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus - Civitas Limicorum

Description

[I]ovi Opti(mo) / Max(imo) / [-] Quadra/tus [C]assi/[us] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) a(nimo)

Code

172

Title

172. Dedication to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus - Civitas Limicorum

Text of the inscription

[I]ovi Opti(mo) / Max(imo) / [-] Quadra/tus [C]assi/[us] v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) a(nimo)

Other name

Iovi Optimo Maximo [-] Quadratus Cassius votum solvit libens animo

Textual source

(Rrivas 1990-1991, 221)

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Iuppiter

Onomastic attribute 1

Optimus
Maximus

Institutions and individuals involved

1

Dedicant/s

[---] Quadratus Cassius

Location

Civitas Limicorum - Xinzo de Limia/Ginzo de Limia

Topographic context

It was found among the ruins of what could have been a medieval fortification, the so-called "Castillo Ganade".

Place of conservation

Embedded in the wall.

Condition of conservation

In situ
Reused-embedded in wall

Hep

HEp 4, 1994, 579

Support

Altar

Size (cm)

84 x 37 x 52

Material

Granite

Further bibliography

Juan Carlos Rivas Fernández "Las inscripciones romanas del "Castillo de Ganade" (Xinzo). Reaparición de la I.R.G. nº. 67, y otras más inéditas", Boletín Auriense, 20-21, 1990-1991, 226.
Rodríguez Colmenero, A., Aquae Flaviae: I. Fontes epigráficas da Gallaecia meridional interior, Chaves, 1997, nº 38.

EDCS

21700405

HEpOL

7618

Last update

21/09/2021

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Item sets

DEPHis