Altar for Iupiter Dolichenus (Stockstadt)
The altar for Iupiter Dolichenus in Stockstadt am Main , a market in the Lower Franconian district of Aschaffenburg ( Bavaria ), is now in the Saalburg Museum near Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .
description
The altar for Iupiter Dolichenus made of red Main sandstone is 58 cm high. The Latin inscription reads: I (ovi) O (ptimo) M (aximo) / Doliche / no coh (ors) / I Aquit (anorum) / vet (erana) eq (uitata) / cui prae / est T (itus) Fa / bius Libe / ralis praef (ectus) / v (otum) s (olvit) l (ibens) l (aeta) m (erito) . The translation is: The best and greatest Jupiter from Doliche. The first Aquitanian long-serving, mounted cohort under Titius Fabius Liberalis, their prefect , happily and happily resolved their vows for a fee .
The altar was erected by soldiers from the Stockstadt fort , near which a sanctuary for Iupiter Dolichenus was excavated.
See also
literature
- Émile Espérandieu : Recueil général des bas-reliefs, statues et bustes de la Germanie romaine. Paris 1931, no.267, p. 177.
- Michael P. Speidel : Jupiter Dolichenus. The sky god on the bull . (= Small Writings for Knowledge of the Roman Occupation History of Southwest Germany No. 24). Society for Prehistory and Early History in Württemberg and Hohenzollern, Stuttgart 1980, p. 68.