Thursday 12 March 2009

Temple or Altar

A brief note on the last entry. I've been meaning to edit it, but a few additional thoughts occur.

Aedes matri deum et isidi should of course be the Temple of the Mother Godesses and Isis. Julia Tiberina would have had to have been very well connected for the wife of a legionary centurion to have endowed a Temple. Instead I opted for 'altar' as the more normal object of ex voto dedication. However, we do see such as ex voto restituerunt or ex voto refecerunt in respect of temples (still potentially a large expense!).