503. Dedication to Proserpina - Augusta Emerita (earlier thought from La Garrovilla)

Description

- - - - - - / Proserpinae / Severianus / Aug(ustalis) • / a(nimo) • l(ibens) • v(otum) • s(olvit) • Proposed reconstruction: [Deae sanctae / Ataecinae / Turibrigae] / Proserpinae....

Code

503

Title

503. Dedication to Proserpina - Augusta Emerita (earlier thought from La Garrovilla)

Text of the inscription

- - - - - - / Proserpinae / Severianus / Aug(ustalis) • / a(nimo) • l(ibens) • v(otum) • s(olvit) •
Proposed reconstruction: [Deae sanctae / Ataecinae / Turibrigae] / Proserpinae....

Other name

Deae sanctae Ataecinae Turibrigae Proserpinae Severianus Augustalis animo libens votum solvit

Textual source

HEpOL 5483

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Onomastic attribute 1

Perhaps Dea Sancta Ataecina was part of the onomastic sequence.

Institutions and individuals involved

1

Topographic context

It appeared in 1990 in the municipal term of La Garrovilla delivered by the student María Luisa Rosales Pozo to the Nª Sª de la Caridad de Garrovillas school. Years later was explained that the piece was identified during the rehabilitation works on a road adjacent to the Proserpina reservoir, among the land and rubble provided by the trucks to repair said road.

Place of conservation

It is preserved in the Museum of Badajoz.

Condition of conservation

In museum

Hep

HEp 5, 1995, 76 = HEp 2014-2015, 95

Inventory number

inv. 14,379.

Support

Altar

Size (cm)

(20) x 14 x 8

Material

Marble

AE

AE 1997, 804 A = AE 1997, 804

Further bibliography

J. L. Ramírez Sádaba, "La demografía del Territorium Emeritense (excepto el casco urbano) según la documentación epigráfica", Studia Histórica. Historia Antigua. Vol. X-XI, 1992-1993, 140 note 20.
A. U. Stylow, "Nuevo testimonio emeritense de Ataecina", REEx 53, 1997, 14, photo.
G. Méndez Grande (2015), "Hallazgos de dos nuevas piezas de mármol con dedicaciones a Ataecina-Proserpina en Augusta Emerita", Mérida. Excavaciones arqueológicas 2005 (Memoria 11), 457-458.

EDCS

HEpOL

Image

Last update

17/01/2022

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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