560. Dedication to Invictus [Mithras]- Augusta Emerita

Description

Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu

Code

560

Title

560. Dedication to Invictus [Mithras]- Augusta Emerita

Text of the inscription

Invict[o Mithrae] / Hector Cornelior[um] / ex visu

Other name

Invicto Mithrae Hector Corneliorum ex visu

Textual source

Mitra en Hispania 1.01.04.01

(older reading, different interpretation, see, HEpOL 20094)

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Onomastic attribute 1

Institutions and individuals involved

1

Chronology

2nd century

Terminus post quem

150

Terminus ante quem

200

Topographic context

From the Alcazaba?

Place of conservation

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano - Mérida

Condition of conservation

In museum

Hep

HEp 1, 1989, 99

Inventory number

MNARM, nº inv. 13902.

CIL

CIL VIII, 9256

AE

AE 1962, 67 (outdated reading) = AE 1984, 487

Further bibliography

ERAE 28 = HAE 1840 = ILER 380 = CIMRM I, 151.

L. García Iglesias, RevEstExtremeños 40, 1984, pp. 152-153; pl. 4.
Renberg, 2003, G. H., “Commanded by the Gods”: An Epigraphical Study of Dreams and Visions in Greek and Roman Religious Life, PhD Duke Univ., UMI Diss. Services, n. 1211, p. 725.
Tantimonaco, S., “Causae dedicationum nelle iscrizioni sacre. L’esempio della Lusitania romana”, in Sacrum facere. Atti del III Seminario di Archeologia del Sacro. Lo spazio del ‘sacro’: ambienti egesti del rito.” a cura di Federica Fontana ed Emanuela Murgia, Trieste, 3-4 ottobre 2014, Trieste, 2016, 455-478, n. 36.

EDCS

Last update

18/04/2022

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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