A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

of public relief monuments. In private dedications the subject matter appears fre- quently, often constituting their only relief ...

Furthermore, to only depict animals on state reliefs and private dedications under- lines to what extent getting in touch with t ...

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Inscriptions as Sources of Knowledge for Religions and Cults in the Roman World of Imperial Times Rudolf Haensc ...

Inscriptions 177 with Latin but also with Greek inscriptions (other languages were seldom used for inscriptions referring to rel ...

inscriptions, is quite small, even if they are important ones as for example the lex de flamonio Narbonensis(ILS6964). Their num ...

Figure 13.1 The Roman calendar before the reform of C. Iulius Caesar, as shown by the intercalatory month on the right (Fasti An ...

Dedicatory Inscriptions The most numerous sources for religions in the Roman world are the so-called dedicatory or votive inscri ...

the donors’ status not only at the moment of the dedication but also at the time when the vow was undertaken – as for example th ...

with Neptunus or Turmasgada with Iuppiter, or, as AE 1969/70, 405, does, con- nect the Celtic gods Atepomarus and Mullo with Mer ...

a complex donation. But only seldom are the objects donated mentioned, because they could be seen at the time when the monument ...

sometimes even up to 50 percent) felt themselves obliged not only to bring offerings to the Roman gods and – normally – to the n ...

most inscriptions were not found in situ, that is, in the place where they were erected in ancient times. For excavations to rev ...

increasing, sometimes in an exponential way. Until 1965, for instance, only seven ex- amples were known from Britain. At present ...

Of course, we get some general indications from these texts and monuments concerning burial rituals and the current religious co ...

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Religion in the House Annemarie Kaufmann-Heinimann Religion, amazingly to the modern eye, was present everywher ...

Religion in the House 189 The Hellenized House in Italy As a result of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean world during the sec ...

of myths were not tied to one specific interpretation but could be interpreted in dif- ferent ways according to the personal exp ...

simple purpose of having a picture gallery. This would explain why very often there is no system, and different topics are combi ...

program for all the mosaics in one house. Dining rooms tend to be decorated with Dionysiac scenes, with scenes of the marine thi ...

particularly difficult to draw a line between statuettes bought and valued as pieces of art and others used in the domestic ritu ...