Altar recording a taurobolium
From Portus, bank of the Tiber.
Date: 15 May 199 AD. W. 0.475, h. 0.89, d. 0.435.
AEMILIA
SERAPIAS
TAVROBOLIVM FECIT
ET ARAM TAVROBOLATAM
POSVIT
PER SACERDOTES
VALERIO PANCARPO
IDIB(us) MAIS ANVLLINO II
ET FRONTONE CO(n)S(ulibus)Aemilia
Serapias
performed a taurobolium
and the taurobolic altar
she placed,
through the priests [or: her priest]
Valerius Pancarpus,
on the ides of May, Anullinus for the 2nd time
and Fronto being consuls.
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Amelung I.2, p. 192 nr. 31. CIL XIV, 39. EDR143741. Photo: Van Haeperen 2019, fig. 291.