Deities in Trajan’s and Marcus Aurelius’ Column

• Péter Kovács ^[1]
  1. [1] Pázmány Péter Catholic University

     Pázmány Péter Catholic University

     Hungría

     
• Localización: Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, ISSN-e 1588-2551, ISSN 0001-5210, Vol. 68, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 47-58
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In his paper the author deals with the deities depicted on Trajan’s and Marcus Aurelius’ Column with a special regard to the cult of Danuvius/Danube and the winged and bearded god of the rain miracle. The cult of Danuvius is rarely attested epigraphically (and not before the 2nd century AD) and it must be connected to Trajan’s campaign against the Dacians. The rain god is iconographically unique but a figure of a river god among the Dionysiac relief panels of the theatre in Perge dated to Marcus Aurelius’ reign can be its first parallel.