562. Mithraic dedication to a god Invictus - Augusta Emerita

Description

Invicto sacrum C(aius) Curius / Avitus Acci(o) Hedychro pa(tre) // Δημήτριος ἐπόει

Code

562

Title

562. Mithraic dedication to a god Invictus - Augusta Emerita

Text of the inscription

Invicto sacrum C(aius) Curius / Avitus Acci(o) Hedychro pa(tre) // Δημήτριος ἐπόει

Other name

Invicto sacrum Caius Curius Avitus Accio Hedychro patre Δημήτριος ἐπόει

Textual source

HD 029361 and edited. [Soli] Invicto?, [Mithrae] Invicto?

Number of deities

1

Onomastic attribute 1

Institutions and individuals involved

1 or 2

Chronology

Mid second century

Terminus post quem

125

Terminus ante quem

175

Topographic context

Found in the Cerro de San Albín in 1913.

Place of conservation

Museo Nacional de Arte Romano - Mérida

Condition of conservation

In museum

Inventory number

MNARM, nº inv. 581

Support

Statue

Size (cm)

150 x 60

Material

Marble

AE

AE 1915, 67 = AE 1919, 87

Further bibliography

CIMRM-01, 773 and 774 fig. 208; ERHispania p 79

Linner, Skulpturenausstattung eines Mithräums in Mérida: Katalogund Interpretation, Wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit zur Erlangung des Magister Artium an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 1998, pp. 38-41, plates. XI-XII.
Hoz García y Bellido, “Bilingüismo grecolatino en la península Ibérica. Testimonios de code-switching”, A Greek man in the Iberian Street, Papers in Linguistics and Epigraphy in Honour of Javier de Hoz, Innsbruk, 2011, pp. 79-91, pp. 82-83.
Romero Mayorga,“Iconografía mitraica en Hispania: semejanzas y diferencias con los modelos de la metrópolis”, en T. Nogales - I. Rodá (eds.), Roma y las provincias: modelo y difusión, Roma, 2011, 1087-1090.

EDH

EDCS

HEpOL

Last update

19/04/2022

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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