481. Dedication to Balaesu* Cileae? - Alcántara
Description
Balaesu(s) / Cileae / animo / libe(n)s vo(t)/u(m) Victoria / solvit
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
Balaesus Caii libertus Eaeco
Textual source
Disputed, see HEpOL 20348.
Number of deities
1
Theonym 1
It is possible that the onomastic sequence of the god is other. Reading problems
Onomastic attribute 1
Institutions and individuals involved
1?
Dedicant/s
In some readings Balaecu(s) is consider the dedicant.
Location
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
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
EDCS
HEpOL
Image
Last update
08/06/2022
Author
Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)