536. Statue of Mercury dedicated to Invictus Deus Mithras - Augusta Emerita
Description
Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / inuicto deo Mithrae / sacr(um) / G(aius) Accius Hedychrus / Pater / a(nimo) l(ibente) p(osuit)
Code
536
Title
536. Statue of Mercury dedicated to Invictus Deus Mithras - Augusta Emerita
Text of the inscription
Ann(o) Col(oniae) CLXXX / inuicto deo Mithrae / sacr(um) / G(aius) Accius Hedychrus / Pater / a(nimo) l(ibente) p(osuit)
Other name
Anno Coloniae CLXXX invicto deo Mithrae sacrum Gaius Accius Hedychrus Pater animo libente posuit
Textual source
Mitra en Hispania 1.01.02.06.
Number of deities
1
Theonym 1
Onomastic attribute 1
Institutions and individuals involved
1
Dedicant/s
Terminus post quem
155
Terminus ante quem
155
Dating criteria
Provincial year
Location
Topographic context
Discovered in 1913, but in 1902 a fragment of the right leg had already been found, an inscription on a statue of Mercury with a lyre.
Place of conservation
Museo Nacional de Arte Romano - Mérida
Condition of conservation
In museum
Inventory number
nº inv. 580
Support
Statue
Material
Marble
AE
AE 1915, 68 = AE 1919, 86
Further bibliography
CIMRM, I, 780 and 781, fig. 213
Nogales, T., “Statua di Ermete Seduto. 155 d.C.”, en P. Moreno (coord.), Lisipo. L’Arte e la Fortuna, Roma, 1995, 138-139.
Linner, N., Skulpturenausstattung eines Mithräums in Mérida: Katalogund Interpretation, Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des Magister Artium an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1998 (unpublished?), p. 69 and ff.
Baratta, G., Il culto di Mercurio della Penisola Iberica, Barcelona, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universitat de Barcelona, Col.lecció Instrumenta 9, Barcelona, 2001, p. 81-81.
Cacciotti, B., “Culti orientali in Spagna: alcune osservazioni iconografiche”, en J.M. Noguera y E. Conde (eds.), Escultura Romana en Hispania V, Murcia, 2008, 163-186, p. 178.
Romero Mayorga, C., “Mercury with Lyre: A New Interpretation of a Mithraic Sculpture Found in Hispania”, en L. Bravi, L. Lomiento, A. Meriani, G. Pace (eds.), Tra lyra e aulos. Tradizioni musicali e generi poetici, Pisa- Roma, 2016a, 199-206.
Nogales, T., “Statua di Ermete Seduto. 155 d.C.”, en P. Moreno (coord.), Lisipo. L’Arte e la Fortuna, Roma, 1995, 138-139.
Linner, N., Skulpturenausstattung eines Mithräums in Mérida: Katalogund Interpretation, Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des Magister Artium an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1998 (unpublished?), p. 69 and ff.
Baratta, G., Il culto di Mercurio della Penisola Iberica, Barcelona, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universitat de Barcelona, Col.lecció Instrumenta 9, Barcelona, 2001, p. 81-81.
Cacciotti, B., “Culti orientali in Spagna: alcune osservazioni iconografiche”, en J.M. Noguera y E. Conde (eds.), Escultura Romana en Hispania V, Murcia, 2008, 163-186, p. 178.
Romero Mayorga, C., “Mercury with Lyre: A New Interpretation of a Mithraic Sculpture Found in Hispania”, en L. Bravi, L. Lomiento, A. Meriani, G. Pace (eds.), Tra lyra e aulos. Tradizioni musicali e generi poetici, Pisa- Roma, 2016a, 199-206.
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Last update
08/04/2022
Author
Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)