Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 15. 1974 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1976)
Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Tóth I.: Two Misinterpreted Jupiter Dolidunus Relics from Pannonia Inferior. XV, 1974. p. 89–98.
Fig. 5: The base from Aquincum. only way such an unusual position of the dedication can be accepted would be if the top of the base was completely intact. Since the first portion of the inscription is missing, though, the invocation was surely included in the first line, not the last. The interpretation of the Silua as Silua(no) is therefore rejected. Rather, it would naturally follow that the word was the name of a locality. To be more precise, it named the place of origin of Har[fua]rinus as Arfuaris Silua. Thus, in correspondance with the original meaning of the word, Silua designates a given „forest". The consisting of two syllabes of a local name corresponds exactly to the usual form of the antique place names formed with the word Silua.( 51 ) With regard to what has been mentioned above, the following reading of the inscription can be proposed : | Наг[/иаЦ \ ri{i}nus Su\rus ex re\gione Do\lica vico | Arfuaris Silua (abl!) v(otum) s(oluit) \ Modesto | et Probo co(n)s(ulibus). Thus, according to this interpretation, the attractive hypothesis for the syncretistic relationship of (51) I. Paulovics seems to interpret the name of the locale similarly, (o. c, DissPann, 11/11, 1941, 141.), where he does not complete the word Silua to read Silvanus. the Commagene and Pannónia deities must be rejected^ 2 ). At the same time, though, the religious historical consequences resulting from this new interpretation of the inscription of this base must be examined. For want of the deity's name contained in the perished first line of the inscription, the following conclusions are indirect and, naturally, suppositions. However, it is hoped that these conclusions, will prove accurate and acceptable in the following examination. (52) Cf. literature referred to in note 50. 96
