Roman grave altar (Eiselfing)

Roman grave altar in Eiselfing

The Roman grave altar is located in the St. Rupertus Church in Eiselfing , a municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim . After the restoration of the tomb altar, it was placed to the right of the entrance to the church.

description

When the high altar canteen of St. Rupertus was demolished in 1969, a Roman grave altar was discovered which was walled up in the high altar . The base profile and the truncated pyramid-shaped attachment were partially removed. The altar made of light, yellowish red limestone, so-called Untersberg marble , is 61 cm wide, 126 cm high and has a preserved depth of 39 cm. It belongs to the type of pillar tombs and is dated between 200 and 250 AD. A Latin inscription is carved into the obverse , which reads in German translation:

“Consecrated to the spirits of the dead! Terentinus, son of Taurio, rider of Ala C (?), Died at the age of 30, and Verecunda Cosivia, the mother, died at the age of 65. Aurelius Taurio erected the tombstone for his wife and son together with his daughter during their lifetime. ”A narrow border surrounds the inscription field.

The narrow sides of the upper part show the rear part of a panther and on the left a sacrificial bowl . The narrow sides of the lower block are each decorated with a dolphin .

Narrow sides

literature

Gabrielle Kremer: Ancient grave structures in Noricum. Catalog and evaluation of workpieces as a contribution to the reconstruction and typology (= special publications of the Austrian Archaeological Institute . Volume 36). Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna 2001, p. 144, No. I 121.
Ute Schillinger-Häfele: Fourth addendum to CIL XIII and second addendum to Fr. Vollmer, Inscriptiones Baivariae Romanae. Inscriptions from the German part of the Germanic provinces and the Treverer area as well as Rätiens and Noricums. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission . Volume 58, 1977, p. 562, No. 220 (= AE 1978, 593 ).
Ferdinand Steffan: Two Roman gravestones from the Wasserburg am Inn area. In: Bavarian history sheets . Volume 38, 1973, pp. 120-123 (= AE 1973, 381).
Ferdinand Steffan: The churches and chapels of the parish Eiselfing. Edited by the Catholic Parish Office of St. Rupertus Eiselfing, Wasserburg 2011, pp. 28–29.

Web links

Commons : Roman grave altar - collection of images, videos and audio files

Eiselfing grave altar in the Heidelberg Epigraphic Database
Eiselfing grave altar at Ubi Erat Lupa of the University of Salzburg

Remarks

↑ The reading of the inscription is unclear in parts; while Ferdinand Steffan resolves the sequence of letters FEAC , as translated here, to f (ilius) e (ques) a (lae) C (---) , Ute Schillinger-Häfele reads FE AC and resolves to f (ilius) e (ius? ) ac (ceptus?) (“his kindly welcomed son”); see. Ferdinand Steffan: Two Roman gravestones from the Wasserburg am Inn area. In: Bavarian history sheets. Volume 38, 1973, pp. 120-123; Ute Schillinger-Häfele: Fourth addendum to CIL XIII and second addendum to Fr. Vollmer, Inscriptiones Baivariae Romanae. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Volume 58, 1977, p. 562, No. 220.

48.04105 12.24332Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 36 ″ E

[1] The reading of the inscription is unclear in parts; while Ferdinand Steffan resolves the sequence of letters FEAC , as translated here, to f (ilius) e (ques) a (lae) C (---) , Ute Schillinger-Häfele reads FE AC and resolves to f (ilius) e (ius? ) ac (ceptus?) (“his kindly welcomed son”); see. Ferdinand Steffan: Two Roman gravestones from the Wasserburg am Inn area. In: Bavarian history sheets. Volume 38, 1973, pp. 120-123; Ute Schillinger-Häfele: Fourth addendum to CIL XIII and second addendum to Fr. Vollmer, Inscriptiones Baivariae Romanae. In: Report of the Roman-Germanic Commission. Volume 58, 1977, p. 562, No. 220.