Budapest Régiségei 35/1. (2002)

Havas Zoltán: Újabb monopodiumlapok Aquincumból : ismeretlen vicus feliratos említése 279-292

UJABB MONOPODIUMLAPOK AQUINCUMBÓL - ISMERETLEN VICUS FELIRATOS EMLÍTÉSE MORE MONOPODIUM BOARDS FROM AQUINCUM Inscribed Reference to an Unknown Vicus The collection of the Museum of Aquincum now includes two more monopodium boards from the type that is characterised by the exsection in the middle of the front side. When found, both pieces were of secondary use, built into late Roman stone graves. On its edge along the two sides of the exsection, one of the pieces (Farkastorki road, Cat. No. 1) features a dedicational inscription addressed to Jupiter. The table was put up based on the decision of the decurios of a hitherto unknown vicus. Based on the protruding edge and the careful way it has been cut through, the channel that leads through the surface of the table, and the various comparisons that can be drawn, it can be concluded that the piece's original function was to serve as an offering table for the libatio. I made a catalogue of the data of all known tables, as a new element the catalogue features three hitherto unpublished Aquincum fragments. Two of these fit together and belong to a table that is divided on several sides by multiple arched exsections (Cat. No. 5). The third one fits into an already known fragment (Cat. No. 3). The arched exsections, in my opinion, did not serve a practical function; their symbolic meaning was probably very general as well. In my view, some general form shaping custom must be credited for the special shape of these tables. 289