MONUMENTET VOTIVE ANTIKE TË GJETURA NË RAJONIN E PEJËS
ANTIQUE VOTIVE MONUMENTS FOUND IN PEJA REGION

Summary/Abstract: Among the ancient epigraphic monuments found from the late XIX century, during the XX century and the beginning of the XXI century in the Peja region, a large number of them belong to the votive monuments dedicated to various indigenous deities (Silvan), Roman deities (Jupiter, Mercury, Fortuna, Bonus Eventus and Genii) but also Greek (Aesculapios, Hygia, Telesporus, Heracles) and Egyptian (God Serapis and Goddes Isis). The monuments are mainly votive altars with a few exceptions such as the eagle-and God Heracles-Hercules tablets found in Peja, then the God Dionisios (Liber) tablets and their escorts found in the village of Vrellë and a base of statues of three deities found in Raushiq. Apart from the votive monuments found, it is possible that during antiquity in the Peja region there were also temples, cult places or shrines of various ancient deities: the Roman supreme god Jupiter, the deities Mercury and Aesculapius, and the Egyptian deities Serapis and Isis. In addition to the cults of deities mentioned in today's Peja region, there are also traces of ancient monotheistic beliefs, respectively Judeo-Christian and Early Christianity. Votive monuments have inscriptions with texts in Latin language, chronologically dating from the I to the end of the III century AD and they were made in a stone-masonry workshop near the site called “Gradina” in Peja within the settlement which apparently had the rank of Roman municipium.

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