Folia archeologica 52.
Szabó Ádám: Urbs Roma Aquincumban. Betekintés a kultusz tartományi történetébe
78 SZABÓ ÁDÁM URBS ROMA IN AQUINCUM Insight to the provincial history of the cult From the governor's seat of Pannónia Inferior, Aquincum two epigraphic stone telics are known on the inscription of which Urbs Roma is mentioned as deity. Both of them date to first decades of thirf century A.D. 1. Lime-stone altar or basis. It was found in 1889 in Óbuda (Budapest, 3"' district), Laktanya street, on the corner of Laktanya and Kő street. It was found in a secondary site together with ten other altars supposedly having stood in the same area seeming heterogenious by their dedications, but representing a consistent world of deity. All of them were set by quondam Pannónia Inferior governors, from among whom the chronology of the praetorian rank governors lasted from 163/164 to 214, and two latter of them falls between 246 and 269 A.D. Its inscription remained in good condition: Urbi Romae \ L(ucius) Cassius \ Marcellinus leg(atus) \ Aug(usti) pr(o) pr(aetore) \ co(n)s(ul ) des(ignatus) 2. Limestone sarcophagus. Found in Bicske in 1814 (Fehér County). The site lies on the territory of Aquincum, i.e. in Aquincum. I)(is) M(anibus) I I Ulpiae Antonillae quon(dam) Ulpi | Candidiani 7(centurionis) filia(e) T(itus) Ael(ius) Verinus \ dec(urio) col(oniae) Aq(uincensis) flame-n du(u)mvir\alis sacerdos Urbis Romae \ coniugi pientissimae quae \ vixit amis XXIIII. T(itus) Ael(ius) Verinus, who had the sarcophagus made, was decurio, flamen and duumvir of Aquincum according to the text, thus his wife's sarcophagus can be dated after the town was conferred colonia, i.e. after 194, the beginning - first two decades of the 3 r d century. T. Ael. Verinus was the only one so far to represent the priestly title sacerdos Urbis Romae in both Pannoniae, more exactly from Pannónia Inferior. The cult relics of Aquincum form organic parts of the cult history in the Severus era. T. Aelius Verinus' sacerdos Urbis Romae title refers to the cult practice, to the fact that under his leadership the deity's worship was performed in an organized form in Aquincum. It can be concluded that - documented by two inscriptions Urbs Romaheld cult and a place of worship of provincial importance in Pannónia Inferior, probably having Aquicum as a centre in the first third of the 3 r d century A.D. Adám Szabó
