Original scientific paper

Altar of the goddess Salacia from Trogir

Dino Demicheli orcid.org/0000-0002-5911-7903 ; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper deals with an altar dedicated to the goddess Salacia.
Salacia was known as the wife of the god Neptune, and
this is the first monument to this goddess in Dalmatia and
only the second anywhere else in the Roman Empire. This
fact alone means that the discovery and publication of such
a rare monument contributes to new knowledge on Roman
religion both on the eastern Adriatic coast and in the Empire
as a whole. The altar was found in Trogir, where it was walled
into another structure as a spolia during Late Antiquity.

Keywords

Trogir; Salacia; Augusta; Neptune; salax; Venus; dea meretricum

Hrčak ID:

26717

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/26717

Publication date:

22.8.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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