Altar with Minerva and a water god

TNMM 596 ↔ CIMRM 330 & 331

This monument may be compared to a small marble base, seen by Smetius in Rome in the 16th century in domo Iordani Ruchabellae ad S. Laurentium in Damaso ad Campum Florae (MMM II 414 No. 293). The base, on which a representation of Minerva and a lying water-god, probably supported a statue of Jupiter. The inscription on the front is worth mentioning:

CIMRM 331

Iovi optimo maximo / caelestino fontibus et / Minervae et collegio / sanctissimo quod consis/tit in praedis Larci / Macedonis. / In curia. / Flavius Successus cum suis.

This inscription may refer to a Mithras-community.

Small marble altar. The plinth and crowning, composed of various cornices, run all around the monument. The central dado has an inscription on the front, within a lowered moulding and bordered by a cornice, preceded by a festoon with a palemtta in the centre.

In the sixth line there appears to be an abraded part. A Larcius Macedo was bound in Galatia in 122 A.D. The back face is currently tampered with by a deep cavity. On the sides are carved, respectively, a river lying on the left and Minerva at an altar on the right.