User:Cynwolfe/List of ancient Roman altars

This is a list of ancient Roman altars, that is, altars known to have been located within the city of ancient Rome, or altars established in territories under Roman rule before Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Latin word for "altar" is ara, plural arae.

City of Rome

 * Ara Pacis
 * Ara Maxima, the Great Altar of Hercules
 * Ara Calvini, a restoration of an archaic altar dedicated to sei deo sei divae, "whichever god or goddess"
 * Ara Martis. There was more than one Altar of Mars:


 * In the Campus Martius, near the Villa Publica: The establishment of this altar was attributed to Numa Pompilius, the semi-legendary second king of Rome. It was located in the center of the Campus, to the east of the Palus Caprae. "The Altar of Mars and the Villa Publica defined the area where the most important electoral functions of the Republic took place." The comitia centuriata and the comitia tributa met in the Campus. "Generals preparing to celebrate a triumph offered the sacrifice of the secunda spolia at the Ara Martis while they waited for the necessary senatorial approval to enter the city."

(Platner here) see R. under MARS
 * Ara Saepta, otherwise known as the Altar of Aius Locutius
 * Altar of Consus (Platner's entry here)
 * Altar of the Julian gens — see R. under GENS IULIA, ara
 * Altar of the Divine Matidia, the mother-in-law of Hadrian made diva
 * Altar of Fortuna Redux
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 * Amicitiae Ara, decreed by the senate but location (or whether it was even built) unknown (R p. 6)
 * Altar of Dis Pater and Prosperpina; see under DIS
 * Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus; see NEPTUNUS, AEDES
 * Ara Marmorea, "marble altar" known from two inscriptions found near the Porta Capena
 * Arae Incendii Neronis, ought to have a section in Great Fire article; see R p. 21
 * Ara Pietatis Augustae
 * Ara Saturni
 * Altar for the Lares Augusti and Genii Caesarum of a vicus, given by four magistri vici primi.
 * Altar for the Lares Augusti, given to the Vicus Aeculeti by its magistri vici.
 * Altar to Aesculapius Augustus, dedicated by a minister vicus of Tiberina.
 * Altar to Concordia Augusta.
 * Ara Providentia Augusta, attested by the Arval Acts and later coin inscriptions; location unknown.
 * Altar to Bona Dea, dedicated by Anteros.
 * Altar to Cautes and Cautopates, divine attendants of Mithras, symbolizing respectively dawn and sunset. Inscription: "Deo Cautae Aur. Sabinus Pater huius loci Tiberius Quintianus ex voto posuerunt." ("To the god Cautes. Aurelius Sabinus, Pater of this place [and] Tiberius Quintianus, set this up in fulfilment of a vow.") Dedicated by Aurelius Sabinus, pater of the mithraeum of the castra peregrina of the Imperial horseguards (equites singulares). Marble, reign of Commodus (180-192 CE). From the area of S. Stefano Rotondo, Rome. [from the description at Commons)

Hispania

 * Altar de Lucius Iunius Paetus, from the Roman theater of Cartagena (Museo del Teatro Romano de Cartagena. AE 1992, 01077)

Africa

 * Altar of Marazgu Augustus, Libya. A Berber deity identified with Augustus, in a local form of Imperial cult
 * Altars (several) to Dii Magifie Augusti, local expressions of Imperial cult
 * Altars to Roma with the divus Augustus, at Leptis Magna and Mactar.

Gaul

 * Altar of Dea Roma at the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls in Lugdunum (Lyon)
 * Ara Numinis Augusti ("Altar of the Numen of Augustus") at Narbonne.

Britannia

 * Altar to Fortuna, military dedication at Blatobulgium (Birrens), an Antonine Wall fort.
 * Altar to the Genius of Britannia (Genio Terrae Britannicae), a centurion's dedication at Auchendavy fort, Antonine Wall.

Germania Inferior

 * Altar of Vagdavercustis, at Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (Cologne). Dedicated in the late 2nd century AD by Titus Flavius Constans, a Praetorian prefect at Roman Cologne, Germania Inferior. He is shown with his assistants, performing a sacrifice
 * Votive altar for the goddess Hustrge: (to the) Goddess Hustrge and on her order has Valerius Silvester, decurio (council) of the Municipium Batavorum erected this altar, freely and deservedly.. DEAE HURSTRGE Ex P(raecepto) EIUS VAL(erius) SILVESTE[r] DEC(urio) M(unicipii) BAT(avorum) POS(uit) L(ibens) M(erito) (Bogaers, BROB, p. 287-290 (AE 1958, 38= 1959, 10). Found in the vinicity of Tiel, the Netherlands, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.