FULGUR SACRUM - NJË EPITET I RI KUSHTUAR JUPITERIT I ZBULUAR KOHËVE TË FUNDIT NË ULPIANË
FULGUR SACRUM – A NEW EPITHET DEDICATED TO JUPITER DISCOVERED RECENTLY IN ULPIANA

Summary/Abstract: This work highlights the importance of an altar dedicated to Jupiter Sacrum, discovered at Ulpiana near the eastern fortification wall of the city. The epigraphic data stored on the altar clearly indicates the presence of the cult of Jupiter Fulgur in Ulpiana. Based on palaeographic data and analogies with similar monuments in the Danubian provinces, and based on the historical context of the discovery site, an approximate date of the altar, might be proposed in the II-III centuries A.D. The appearance of the epithet Fulguri has been unknown until now in the inscriptions found in the territory of Ulpiana. Therefore, with this epithet, Jupiter it is proven for the first time in Ulpiana, but also in Kosovo. Meanwhile under the Sacrum ability, Jupiter has been testified earlier in other altars dedicated to his worships in Kosovo. The discovery of the altar dedicated to Jupiter in Ulpiana only confirms the fact that Jupiter was worshiped and widely respected among the inhabitants of the city, and his appearance with the epithet Fulguri only completes the corpus of epithets, with which he was worshiped and honoured in the city of Ulpiana.

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