Beneficiary altar (Bad Cannstatt)

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Beneficiary altar (Photo: State Museum Württemberg)

The beneficiary altar from Bad Cannstatt , a district of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg , dates from the first quarter of the 3rd century AD. The original is in the possession of the Württemberg State Museum and is exhibited in the Legendary Masterworks collection in the Old Palace in Stuttgart.

The reed sandstone altar is 1.16 meters high, 54 cm wide and 33 cm deep.

The altar of the beneficiary Publius Sedulius Iulianus was erected by him on the occasion of his return to the beneficiary station.

In Bad Cannstatt, the most important Roman road junction in southwest Germany, numerous altars by beneficiaries were found. The altar was found in the 16th century near the Uff churchyard and brought to Stuttgart between 1583 and 1597.

inscription

IN H (onorem) D (omus) D (ivinae) I (ovi) O (ptimo) M (aximo) ET IVNONI REG (inae) GENIO LOCI ET D (is) D (eabus) OMNIB (us) P (ublius) SEDVLIVS IVLIANVS M [ILES] LEG (ionis) VIII AVG (ustae) A [N] TONINIANAE B (ene) F (icarius) CO (n) S (ularis) PRO SAL (ute) SVA ET SVOR (um) [S] TATIONE ITERAT (a) POSVIT IMP (eratore) D (omino) [N (ostro)] ANTONINI AVG (usto) [II] II ET VR (?) [… COS]

Translation: “In honor of the divine imperial house to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus and Iuno Regina , the genius Loci and all other gods and goddesses, Publius Sedulius Iulianus, soldier of Legio VIII Augusta Antoniniana , beneficiarier of the governor, for his salvation and that of his own on returning to the ward, when our Mr. Antoninus Augustus and Ur (?) were consuls for the fourth time ”(from the Württemberg State Museum ).

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