Publications

Authors:

Bertolazzi, Riccardo

Title:

A New Altar pro Salute from Verona

Year:

2024

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

Epigraphica

ISSN of journal:

0013-9572

N° Volume:

86

:

Fratelli Lega Editori

Page numbers:

485-489

Keyword:

altars pro salute; freedmen; patroni; obsequium; Tiberii Claudii

Short description of contents:

The dedication of a second or third-century altar pro salute recently discovered near Verona says that a Claudius Abascantus erected the monument for the safety of Tiberius Claudius Paulus, who was probably his patronus. It seems likely that Claudius Paulus was somehow related to two distinguished members of the Veronese elite, the senator Bellicius Sollers and his wife, Claudia Marcellina. Although it is impossible to know the exact circumstances in which Claudius Abascantus set up this altar, one can guess that he wanted to thank one or more deities for seeing his patronus through some difficult events. Such acts of devotion were part of the obsequium due to former masters, a custom to which many inscriptions dating to the second and third centuries CE seem to allude, both in Verona and other areas of northern Italy.

Product ID:

140527

Handle IRIS:

11562/1131526

Last Modified:

September 22, 2024

Bibliographic citation:

Bertolazzi, Riccardo, A New Altar pro Salute from Verona «Epigraphica» , vol. 86 , 2024 , pp. 485-489

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