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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2673
Monte Sacro?
Roman world

Health ara

MAC BCN-019056

Object type
ara
Production date
2 / 2
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Roman world
Discovery location
Monte Sacro?
Materials
Carrara marble
Township
Cartagena (Europa, Espanya, Comunitat de Múrcia, Múrcia)
Technique
sculpting
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
124 x 66 cm
Description
Altar decorated with bas-reliefs. Its frontispiece shows a veiled female figure holding an olive branch in her left hand. On the back of the altar, two cornucopias are interlaced on a patera, while on the sides appears a rudder of a boat and olive tree with a coiled snake. Traditionally it has been considered that the motifs would connect the altar with the cult of Asclepius and Salus, i.e., with rituals favourable to health. However, other hypotheses link the altar with the worship of the emperor.

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