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...r as a source of regeneration played a role in the Mithraic mysteries, and inscriptions to Fons Perennis ("Eternal Spring" or "Never-Failing Stream") have been fou ...of Voltumna or Volturna was an Etruscan family-name attested by sepulchral inscriptions at Perugia and Sovana. It has been suggested that Volturnus was originally

...e in Fast. Ant. may be taken to be to the temple now under discussion. Two inscriptions of the later empire (CIL VI.434, 435) probably belong to this temple, and i ...al to that between the columns and the wall of the cella. As there were no inscriptions on the temples (Vell. loc. cit.) and evidently representations of a lizar

...ing the form of ''versus Saturnius'', the poetical format of Roman epitaph inscriptions, was written in memory and honor of Ti. Galerius Paulinus by Cn. Cornelius

*'''Ara Marmorea''', "marble altar" known from two inscriptions found near the Porta Capena<ref>CIL 6.9403 = ILS 7713, CIL 6.10020 and IGUR *'''Ara Providentia Augusta''', attested by the Arval Acts and later coin inscriptions; location unknown.<ref>Richardson, p.322.</ref>

:The 'Moorish gods' mentioned in Latin inscriptions in North Africa, who are almost never named. They were supposed to be 'salu ...rned with the good health and welfare of the people. There are hundreds of inscriptions of him in Portugal and Spain.

...heads with a white band<ref>Plin. H. N. XVIII.2</ref>. The number given by inscriptions varies, but it is never more than nine; though, according to the legend and ...thood to invoke a blessing on the whole territory of Rome. It is proved by inscriptions that this college existed till the reign of the Emperor Gordian, or A.D. 32

...a had several shrines and temples in Rome, though most are known only from inscriptions referencing them, as well as a temple in Ostia, the port city of Rome. In 4

...used to be destroyed all pictured likenesses or sculptured models, and all inscriptions which represented me, on pain of death, throughout the whole world, the Emp

...k of '''Decanus''' is evidenced only in the Late Empire by Vegetius and by inscriptions, but it is probable that it existed during the principate, as well. In the

...ing the form of ''versus Saturnius'', the poetical format of Roman epitaph inscriptions, was written in memory and honor of Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Alexander the El

...nce for smaller or local cults does not always imply their neglect; votive inscriptions are inconsistently scattered throughout Rome's geography and history. Inscr

...ing the form of ''versus Saturnius'', the poetical format of Roman epitaph inscriptions, was written in memory and honor of A. Tullia Scholastica Augusta, the prin