CIL II2/5, 1113 Y LA UBICACIÓN DE UN EDIFICIO CULTUAL CRISTIANO EN LAS CERCANÍAS DE LA OSUNA TARDOANTIGUA

Abstract

This work studies the remains from a site located near Osuna (Seville). More specifically, we study  one  of  the  best  known  and  most  outstanding  testimonies  of  the  altoimperial  antiquity in Osuna, the pedestal CIL II2/5, 1113, dedicated by colonia Genetiua Iulia to its patronus, Sen- ator Lucius Sergius Plautus. In order to do our research we have relied on the historiographical information concerning some findings at a place called “Piedra del Cristiano” in the early nineteenth century. From the analysis of the formal aspects of the inscription, we can consider that the current state of the piece is the result of its reuse as an ara of a Christian altar through the development of a loculus  for  the  deposition  of  relics,  thus  forming,  together  with  a  board not preserved, an altar table of considerable size which would probably have been located in a religious building complex associated with a necropolis dating back to late antiquity.