Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 31/1. (2011)
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Notes on a Dolichenian Relief at Mehadia 281 pantheon (Iuno, Victoria, Apollo, Sol, Luna, etc.); eagle; bull statues and statuettes; votive hands of stone or bronze, life-size or miniatures; triangular silver or bronze plates with representations of multiple scenes from the gods cult; and silver blades. Analyzing the ‘Dolichenian’ inventory from Porolissum (Gudea-Tamba 2001), respectively from Mehadia (Benea 2008), it is revealed that most of the representations were made out of marble, rock or volcanic tuff. Regarding the places where the eagle appears it is noted that three monuments appeared from Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, two from Mehadia, one from Porolissum (respectively three more of bronze), which shows the spreading of the cult not only in military, but also in civil spheres. In conclusion it can be declared that this iconography concentrates particularly in the Sarmizegetusa, respectively Porolissum area. *** Out of the Syrian and Palmyran cults, Iuppiter Dolichenus was the most important divinity amongst the population in Dacia. Why was it Baal the one who experienced such a spread on western territories? The answer cannot be found in iconography, because Iuppiter Heliopolitanus, Iuppiter Hieropolitanus, Zeus Hadados, Iuppiter Damascenus or the Palmyran triad also shared these qualities. Just because of these qualities Iuppiter Dolichenus does not really extend outside Commagene. We should rather seek the answer in the rapid expansion on the respective territory and the importance of the pervasive army in the spreading of the cult. Analyzing the eastern cults present in Roman Dacia (cult of Mithras, Syrian and Palmyra, Microasian and Egyptian cults), regarding their monuments, we can affirm that the cult of Iuppiter Dolichenus holds the second place in this classification, overcame only by Mithras. The monument we presented represents a particular and unique analogy in the iconography of the god, which is proof not only of the widespread of the cult, but also of diversity in provincial art, and relation of artists and workshops with the flow of ideas, and standard iconographic forms. Benea 2008 Carbó García 2010 CCID CIL Floca 1935 Gilliam 1974 Gudea-Tamba 2001 ILS Isac 1971a Isac 1971b REFERENCES Benea, D., Edificiul de cult roman de la Praetorium (Mehadia), Timisoara. Carbó García, J.-R., Los cultos orientales en la Dacia romana. Formas de difuzión, integráción у control social e ideologico, Ediciones Univesidad De Salamanca. Hörig, M.-Schwertheim, E. (Hrsg.), Corpus Cultus lövi Dolicheni, EPRO, 106, Leiden. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum Floca, О., I culti Orientali nella Dacia, EphemDacoromana, VI, 204-239. Gilliam, J. E, Jupiter Turmasgades, IN: Pippidi, D. M. (ed.), Actes du IXе Congres International d’Études sur les frontieres romaines, Mamaia 6-13 Septembre, 1972, Bucuresti-Köln-Wien. Gudea, N.-Tamba, D., Depre templul zeului Iupiter Dolichenus din municipium Septimium, Zaläu. Dessau, H. (ed.), Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 1892-1916. Isac, D., О reprezentare a lui Iupiter Dolichenus de la Ilisua, ActaMN, 8, 571-576. Isac, D., Monumente votive románé din Banat, Banatica, 1,111-120.
