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

Terminus post quem

155

Terminus ante quem

155

Dating criteria

Provincial year

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Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des Magister Artium an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1998 (unpublished?), p. 69 and ff.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.

EDH

EDCS

HEpOL

Last update

08/04/2022

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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