Epigrafía y culto imperial en la Granada romana

Abstract

The aim of this essay is to examine the epigraphic evidence concerning theimperial cult of the Empire in Roman Granada. Some epigraphs contain references toholders of positions that were instrumental in promoting the Roman imperial cult (sacerdos,pontifex, flamen, flaminica). For example, L. Galerius Valerianus and ? SilvinusFab(ius), sacerdotes perpetui in Iliberis; P. Octavius Flavus, C. Aemilius Niger Arvacusand L. Cominius Iulianus, flamines in Acci, Sexi and Ilurco respectively; Cornelia Severina,…L.f. Patricia and Licinia Rufina, sacerdos/flaminica in Iliberis; or the seviri augustalesof Iliberis, M. Servilius Onesimus and L. Cornelius? Persius. Some other epigraphsmention divinities of the official Roman pantheon. All these testimonies show that thereligion of the Empire was eventually established in Roman Granada. The process ofimplantation was fostered by the local elites’ desire for integration into municipal andurban life through the performance of religious offices.