Taurobolium altar from Lyon
The Lyon Taurobolium Altar is an ancient Roman stone altar that was found in 1704 in a vineyard on the Fourvière in Lyon . The inscription attests to a taurobolium in 160 AD, which was supposed to serve the health of the emperor Antoninus Pius .
The dedicatory inscription is on the front above and below a relief of a bull's head. It is:
Above the bull's head:
- Taurobolio Matris d (eum) M (agnae) Id (eae)
- quod factum est ex imperio Matris
- deum
- pro salute Imperatoris Caes (aris) T (iti) Aeli
- Hadriani Antonini Aug (usti) Pii p (atris) p (atriae)
- liberorumque eius
- et status coloniae Lugudun (ensium)
- L (ucius) Aemilius Carpus IIIIIIvir Aug (ustalis) item
- dendrophorus
Under the bull's head:
- vires excepit et a Vaticano trans-
- tulit ara (m) et bucranium
- suo inpendio consacravit
- sacerdote
- Q (uinto) Sammio Secundo from XVviris
- occabo et corona exornato
- cui sanctissimus ordo Lugudunens (ium)
- perpetuitatem sacerdoti (i) decrevit
- App (io) Annio Atilio Bradua T (ito) Clod (io) Vibio
- Varo co (n) s (ulibus)
- l (ocus) d (atus) d (ecreto) d (ecurionum)
On the website:
- cuius mesonyctium
- factum est V Id (us) Dec (embres)
The stone is now in the Musée gallo-romain de Fourvière in Lyon.
literature
- Amable Audin: Le sanctuaire lyonnais de Cybèle. In: Bulletin des musées et monuments lyonnais 3 (1965), pp. 65-75 and 299-308
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIL 13, 1751 = Hermann Dessau , Inscriptiones Latinae selectae 4131 = M.-P. Darblade-Audoin, Recueil général des sculptures sur pierre de la Gaule , Lyon / Paris 2006, no.337.