Original scientific paper

The regional imperial cult in the Roman province of Dalmatia

Ivana Jadrić-Kučan

Abstract

The provincial imperial cult was organized in the territories of
Hispania Citerior (Tarraconensis), south-west Germania and
Illyricum, thus in those provinces in which major wartime gains
and conquests were achieved precisely by the cult’s founders,
Gaius Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus. Of the three districts
(conventi) recorded in the province of Dalmatia, the archaeological
remains indicate official worship of a regional imperial cult within
the Scardona conventus, and probably within the Salona conventus
as well. According to epigraphic material that mentions ara Augusti
Liburnorum, sacerdos Liburnorum and civitates Liburniae, the cult
was organized only for the Liburnian community. Archaeological
evidence from the territory of Narona speaks of organized imperial
worship already during the lifetime of Augustus, although they
all indicate the cult’s municipal level. During the era of the Flavian
dynasty, the regional imperial cult in Scardona was revived, while a
new regional imperial cult was established for the communities of
south-east Dalmatia in Doclea.

Keywords

Augustus; Tiberius; Dolabella; Vespasian; Titus; Scardona; sacerdos; ara Liburnorum; Oneum; Epidaurum; Doclea

Hrčak ID:

92790

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/92790

Publication date:

15.11.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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