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Die Mainzer Salus: Gesellschaft Und Stadtkultur Im Norden Der Germania Superior

Die Mainzer Salus: Gesellschaft Und Stadtkultur Im Norden Der Germania Superior

Kreikenbom, Detlev
Lipps, Johannes
Osnabrügge, Jonas

Hardcover

Series: Material Appropriation Processes in Antiquity

Art HistoryArchaeologyAncient Rome

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ISBN10: 3752007958
ISBN13: 9783752007954
Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag
Published: Mar 7 2024
Pages: 2024
Weight: 23.75
Language: German
The volume at hand introduces a slightly less than life-size female figure with naked torso and hip cloak made of sandstone that was found in the Zollhafen of Mainz in October 2020. Her left foot rests on a bovine head, and a snake coils towards her left hand from her left shoulder. The inscription on the plinth identifies the figure as a Salus, donated to the inhabitants of the Mainz canabae in 231 AD by Senecionius Moderatus and Respectius Constans. Together with a sculpture from Cologne, the Mainz Salus forms a statue scheme adapted to local needs, the origin of which we place in the Flavian period and hypothetically associate with a newly founded cult at that time. Furthermore, the statue's origins can be easily traced. The stone was probably quarried in the Nahe valley and imported to Mainz, where a workshop known to have distributed across the the province produced statues, presumably including the Genius from Nida (Heddernheim). With such products, the workshop catered to particularly ambitious clients, who adorned cities across Upper Germania with statues of various deities of salvation presented in public spaces, especially in the Severan period. Through this religious practice they both increased their own social prestige and contributed decisively to the urban added value of their communities. Finally, a second statue fragment found together with the Mainz Salus is presented and interpreted as Neptune.

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