User:Cynwolfe/List of ancient Roman altars

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Reconstructed Ara Pacis in its modern setting

This is a list of ancient Roman altars, that is, altars known to have been located within the city of ancient Rome, or altars established in territories under Roman rule before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Latin word for "altar" is ara, plural arae.

City of Rome

  • Ara Pacis
  • Ara Maxima, the Great Altar of Hercules
  • Ara Calvini, a restoration of an archaic altar dedicated to sei deo sei divae, "whichever god or goddess"
  • Ara Martis. There was more than one Altar of Mars:
    • In the
      king of Rome. It was located in the center of the Campus, to the east of the Palus Caprae. "The Altar of Mars and the Villa Publica defined the area where the most important electoral functions of the Republic took place." The comitia centuriata and the comitia tributa met in the Campus. "Generals preparing to celebrate a triumph offered the sacrifice of the secunda spolia at the Ara Martis while they waited for the necessary senatorial approval to enter the city."[1]

(Platner here) see R. under MARS

  • Ara Saepta, otherwise known as the Altar of Aius Locutius
  • Altar of Consus (Platner's entry here)
  • Altar of the Julian gens — see R. under GENS IULIA, ara [4]
  • Altar of the Divine
    Matidia, the mother-in-law of Hadrian made diva [5]
  • Altar of Fortuna Redux [6]
  • [7]
  • Amicitiae Ara, decreed by the senate but location (or whether it was even built) unknown (R p. 6)
  • Altar of Dis Pater and Prosperpina; see under DIS
  • Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus; see NEPTUNUS, AEDES
  • Ara Marmorea, "marble altar" known from two inscriptions found near the Porta Capena[2]
  • Arae Incendii Neronis, ought to have a section in Great Fire article; see R p. 21
  • Ara Pietatis Augustae
  • Ara Saturni
  • Altar for the Lares Augusti and Genii Caesarum of a vicus, given by four magistri vici primi.[3]
  • Altar for the Lares Augusti, given to the Vicus Aeculeti by its magistri vici.[4]
  • Altar to Aesculapius Augustus, dedicated by a minister vicus of Tiberina.[5]
  • Altar to Concordia Augusta.[6]
  • Ara Providentia Augusta, attested by the Arval Acts and later coin inscriptions; location unknown.[7]
  • Altar to Bona Dea, dedicated by Anteros.[8]
  • Altar to Cautes and Cautopates, divine attendants of Mithras, symbolizing respectively dawn and sunset. Inscription: "Deo Cautae Aur. Sabinus Pater huius loci Tiberius Quintianus ex voto posuerunt." ("To the god Cautes. Aurelius Sabinus, Pater of this place [and] Tiberius Quintianus, set this up in fulfilment of a vow.") Dedicated by Aurelius Sabinus, pater of the mithraeum of the castra peregrina of the Imperial horseguards (equites singulares). Marble, reign of Commodus (180-192 CE). From the area of S. Stefano Rotondo, Rome. [from the description at Commons)


  • Panel from altar to Mars and Venus as divine couple (Trajanic)
    Panel from altar to Mars and Venus as divine couple (Trajanic)
  • Mithraic altar to Cautes and Cautopates
    Mithraic altar to Cautes and Cautopates

Hispania

  • Altar de Lucius Iunius Paetus, from the Roman theater of Cartagena (Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena. AE 1992, 01077)
  • Altar of Lucius Iunius Paetus
    Altar of Lucius Iunius Paetus

Africa

  • Altar of Marazgu Augustus, Libya. A Berber deity identified with
    Imperial cult
  • Altars (several) to Dii Magifie Augusti, local expressions of
    Imperial cult
  • Altars to
    divus Augustus, at Leptis Magna
    and Mactar.

Asia

Gaul

Britannia


Germania Inferior

  • Altar of Vagdavercustis, at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne). Dedicated in the late 2nd century AD by Titus Flavius Constans, a Praetorian prefect at Roman Cologne, Germania Inferior. He is shown with his assistants, performing a sacrifice
  • Votive altar for the goddess Hustrge: (to the) Goddess Hustrge and on her order has Valerius Silvester, decurio (council) of the Municipium Batavorum erected this altar, freely and deservedly.. DEAE HURSTRGE Ex P(raecepto) EIUS VAL(erius) SILVESTE[r] DEC(urio) M(unicipii) BAT(avorum) POS(uit) L(ibens) M(erito) (Bogaers, BROB, p. 287-290 (AE 1958, 38= 1959, 10). Found in the vinicity of Tiel, the Netherlands, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.[8]
  • Altar to the goddess Vagdavercustis
    Altar to the goddess Vagdavercustis
  • Votive altar for the goddess Hustrge
    Votive altar for the goddess Hustrge

References

  1. ^ Paul Rehak and John G. Younger, Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), pp. 11–12 online.
  2. ^ CIL 6.9403 = ILS 7713, CIL 6.10020 and IGUR 1342; R p. 21.
  3. ^ John Lott, The neighborhoods of Augustan Rome, pp.184 - 185, and Fig. 12.
  4. ^ Lott, pp.199 - 200, and Fig. 13.
  5. ^ Lott, p.203.
  6. ^ Lott, p.212.
  7. ^ Richardson, p.322.[1]
  8. ^ CIL VI 55, from Regio II, Imperial era; Hendrik H. J. Brouwer, Bona Dea: the sources and a description of the cult, Études préliminaires aux religions orientales dans l'Empire romain, 110, BRILL, 1989, p.27.
  9. ^ CIL 12.4333 = ILS 112, as cited by Duncan Fishwick, Imperial Cult in the Latin West (Brill, 1990), vol. II.1, p. 610.
  10. ^ [2]
  11. ^ [3]


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