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Roman Domestic Religion
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
IB095
Coto del Altamira
Cult Space Type:
Shrine
Building Name:
Coto del Altamira
Site Name:
Taboexa, Pontevedra
Date:
3rd c. A.D., 4th c. A.D.
Country:
Spain
Associated
Cult Spaces:
Room Function:
-
Unknown
Structural
Type:
Unknown
Description:
Found during various excavations of the hilltop residence/fort was a collection of bronze statuettes that would have belonged to a domestic shrine. This included statuettes of Mercury holding his caduceus, a Genius wearing a toga with his head veiled, two figures wearing togas (one believed to be a woman so perhaps the Juno?), a foot wearing a sandal, a hand with a crown, and an ox. Fragments of a wing were also found believed to belong to a cupid. Also found was an arula, two statuette bases, a lamp, and a fragment of a situla. The objects were found across the site and their locations are not given. Nothing is known about the cult space these statuettes would have stood in.
References:
García Rodríguez 1999.
Image Reference:
García Rodríguez 1999 (Left: Mercury. Right: Genius)
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