SILVANUS PANTHEUS
SILVANUS PANTHEUS
Author(s): Bence Fehér Subject(s): Archaeology, Cultural history, Ancient World
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Pannonia; Aquincum; Silvanus; Pantheus;
Summary/Abstract: In 1952, a small altar with a cursive inscription raised to Silvanus Pantheus and dated from the first half of the 2nd century was found at Albertfalva. The Pantheus epitheton is known from Aquincum. According to its analogues from the territory of the Empire and especially from Italy, this epithet belonged to a fertility deity called Liber-Sivanus. The person who raised this altar (and who was not an autochthonous inhabitant but a liberated slave or a slave) probably practised an Italian cult, which later fused with the honour of the local fertility deity in the Silvanus–Diana cult.
Journal: Archaeologiai Értesítő
- Issue Year: 137/2012
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 175-181
- Page Count: 8
- Language: Hungarian
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