Typology (Honorific / Funerary / etc.):
Original Location/Place:
Altar (placed in an unknown location) from Salona, Dalmatia (modern Solin, Croatia).
Actual Location (Collection/Museum):
Museo Civico, Padova, Italy. Inventory no. 291.
Physical Characteristics:
Plaque from an altar. It was first recorded by Petrus Caepius Tragurinus in a manuscript edition dating to 1434-1440. It was then said to be broken in two parts, which are known to have been part of the private collection of a local Croatian noble, Domenico Papale. The left side of the plaque has since been lost, but the right hand side came into the possession of Giovanni Battista Ramusio in Padova in the mid 1500s. Shortly before his death in 1557 the inscription was inserted into an arch near the church of S. Pietro, where it remained until the early 1800s when the arch was demolished and the plaque again entered into a private collection. In 1880 it was transferred to the cloisters of the ex-convent of S. Antonio, until it was moved for inclusion in the epigraphic collection at the new Museo Civico of Padova (For further details see Mommsen in CIL III, 1933; Laffi, “La Lex Arae Iovis Salonitanae,” p. 119-121).