Ara consagrada ao Sol e ao Oceano

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Ara dedicated to the Sun and Ocean

Large ara in lioz limestone whose upper part was cut. Dedicated to the Sun and Ocean by senator Caius Iulius Celsus. Discovered in 1907, being used as a table base in a lateral porch in the Hermitage of São Miguel de Odrinhas, it was originally in the sanctuary of Alto da Vigia. Presently part of the epigraphic collection in the Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas.

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Ara dedicated to the Sun and Ocean by Caius Iulius Celsus. © CMS | MASMO

Type of inscription

Votive

Language

Latin

Technique

Engraving

Reading

SOLI [ET O]CEANO / C(aius) IVLIV[S] C(aii) F(ilius) QV(i)R(ina) CELSV[S] / ADLE[CT]VS AB [I]MP(eratore) ANTONIN[O] / [A]VG(usto) IN AMPLISSIMVM [O]RD[I]N(em) [A] B EODEM [IMP(eratore)] / [L]EG(atus) MISSVS [I]N LVSI[T(aniam) A]D [CE]NSV[S A LI]BELLIS / [E]T A CENSIB(us) . PROC(urator) . PROVINC(iarum) [LVGVD(unensis)] ET [AQVIT(anicae)] / [DILECTA]TOR MILIT(um) [IN A]QV[IT]ANIA PR[OC(urator) PATRI]/[M]ON(ii) PROC(urator) [HER(editatium) ROMA]E . PR[OC(urator)] N[EASPO]/LEO[S] . ET MAVSOLEI [ALE]XAND[R]IAE / PRO[C(urator)] [H]ER(editatium) PE[R] PROV(incias) . N[AR]BON(ensem) ET AQ[V]I[T(anicam)] / CVR[ATOR] VIAE LIGN[ARIAE T]RIVM[P]H[AL(is)] / D(ono) D(edit) //

Translation

To the Sun and Ocean, Caius Iulius Celsus, son of Caius and member of the tribe Quirina. Admitted to the (senatorial) order under Emperor Antonino Augustus; under the same Emperor, legate sent to Lusitania for census; Roman procurator for the Lugdunensis and Aquitania provinces; charged with recruitment of soldiers in Aquitania; procurator of assets the twentieth of inheritance in Rome; procurator of Neaspolis and the Mausoleum of Alexandria; procurator of the twentieth of inheritance in the Narbonensis and Aquitania province; curator of the via Lignaria Triumphalis. Donated this offering.

Present location

Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas

Discovery location

São Miguel de Odrinhas, União das Freguesias de São João das Lampas e Terrugem, Sintra

Suggested reading

Hispania Antiqua Epigraphica 1217.

Cardim Ribeiro, J. (1994) - Felicitas Iulia Olisipo. Al-Madan. Almada: Centro de Arqueologia de Almada. IIª série, 3, pp. 75-95 (pp. 86-87).

Cardim Ribeiro, J. (2011) - Soli Aeterno Lunae - Cultos astrais em época pré-romana e romana na área de influência da Serra de Sintra: ¿Um caso complexo de sincretismo?. In id. (ed.) - Diis Deabusque. Actas do II Colóquio Internacional de Epigrafia "Culto e Sociedade" (Sintria, III-IV). Sintra: MASMO, pp. 595-624.

Cardim Ribeiro, J. (2019) - Escrever sobre a margem do Oceanus: epigrafia e religio no Santuário do Sol Poente (provincia Lusitania) (SEBarc Annexos III). Barcelona.

Piso, I. (2008) - Le cursus honorum de São Miguel de Odrinhas. Sylloge Epigraphica Barcinonensis. Barcelona. 6, pp. 155-168.

Useful links

Archaeological Museum of São Miguel de Odrinhas - http://museuarqueologicodeodrinhas.cm-sintra.pt/

Identification code

LxRomana1111001

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