1057. Dedication to Mercurius Cohortalis - Olisipo

Description

Mercvrio / [C]ohortali / Sacr(um) / Ma(ria) Matvla /[------]

Code

1057

Title

1057. Dedication to Mercurius Cohortalis - Olisipo

Text of the inscription

Mercvrio / [C]ohortali / Sacr(um) / Ma(ria)
Matvla /[------]

Other name

ṂERCVRIO / [C]ỌHORTALI / SACR(um) / ṂẠ(ria)
ṂẠṬṾLA / […]
Mercurio cohortali
Mercurio / [c]ohortali / sacr(um) /amni·tuta/
[tori o tores- - -] /- - - - -

Textual source

Disputed reading. Version adapted from Vasco Gil Mantas, 2022

Number of deities

1

Theonym 1

Onomastic attribute 1

Dedicant/s

Chronology

Late second century.

Terminus post quem

150

Terminus ante quem

200

Dating criteria

Palaeography

Topographic context

Castelo de S. Jorge

Place of conservation

Museu da Cidade - Lisboa

Condition of conservation

In museum

Support

Altar

Size (cm)

(26) x 16 x 12

Material

Limestone

AE

1950, 0255

Further bibliography

RAP 407
M. Mayer Olive (2021), "Notas sobre algunas inscripciones de Olisipo, Lisboa", Rivista Storica dell´Antichita 50, 144-146
Gil Mantas, Vasco (2022), Notas sobre a ara de Mercurius Cohortalis 5 achada no Castelo de S. Jorge (Lisboa), in Diana Gorostidi Pi and Anna Gutiérrez Garcia-M(eds.), TITVLI-IMAGINES-MARMORA. Materia y prestigio en mármol. Anejos AESPA 95, pp. 72-77.

EDH

EDCS

HEpOL

Last update

06/11/2023

Author

Lorenzo Pérez Yarza (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

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