Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.56.2.3
Aquae Iasae − new monuments, dedicated to nymphs, from the Roman sanctuary – Part II
Dora Kušan Špalj
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Abstract
The article deals with thirteen so-far unpublished stone monuments
with votive inscriptions dedicated to nymphs, and one
previously published inscription on a marble slab with a relief.
All the monuments were found during research on the area of
the Roman sanctuary in 2011 and 2012 in the park in Varaždinske
Toplice. Between 2006 and 2016, more than 50 stone monuments
were found that had been re-used in the paving and built into
the northern and southern walls of the spring reservoir during
the renovation of the sanctuary area, most likely at the beginning
of the 4th century. The inscriptions mentioned in this paper
are divided, according to the forms of dedication, into three
groups: inscriptions dedicated to nymphs Augustae, then with
epithet salutares, and inscriptions with a dedication in the form
of numini nympharum. For now, all the stone monuments dedicated
to nymphs, found in the recent research, can be dated to
the 2nd and 3rd centuries, which confirms that it was a period of
prosperity and great popularity of the spa and sanctuary of the
settlement of Aquae Iasae, where visitors, in the hope of healing,
most often addressed their vows to the nymphs, protectors of
the thermal spring.
Keywords
nymphs, inscriptions, Varaždinske Toplice, thermal spring, sanctuary
Hrčak ID:
314501
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2023.
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