This article offers a new reading and interpretation of an inscription from Nicopolis (Epirus), considered as one of the first attestations of the imperial cult in Epirus. T. Pomponius Atticus, a libertus from the Roman colony of Butrint and tied to the Augustan family, might be responsible of the construction of a small temple for the cult of the Lares Augusti, at the basis of the establishment of the imperial cult in Nicopolis and in the whole East.
Q. Caecilius Hilarus, liberto di Butrinto, e le prime tracce del culto imperiale a Nicopolis
Piccinini, Jessica;Antolini, Simona
2024-01-01
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This article offers a new reading and interpretation of an inscription from Nicopolis (Epirus), considered as one of the first attestations of the imperial cult in Epirus. T. Pomponius Atticus, a libertus from the Roman colony of Butrint and tied to the Augustan family, might be responsible of the construction of a small temple for the cult of the Lares Augusti, at the basis of the establishment of the imperial cult in Nicopolis and in the whole East.File in questo prodotto:
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