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SLAB WITH A RELIEF AND AN INSCRIPTION REGARDING THE RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY IN 192
marble
June, AD 192
Finding site: in the structure of the southern wall and in the ruins of the northern wall of the spring pool (exploration in 2011 and 2012)
The goddess, or more likely her priestess, is represented on the right side, in a distinguishing dress with the so-called Knot of Isis and characteristic headgear (horns and Sun disk). She is holding a patera in her right hand and pouring an offering above a smaller brazier altar. The cornucopia that she holds in her left hand implies that this is Isis-Fortuna (or her priestess), a very popular syncretistic figure of the Roman religion.
Four denuded female figures are depicted by her side, of whom one is most probably Venus, in view of the fact that Amor is represented alongside her, while the other three are nymphs.
In view of the partially preserved inscription, relief can be ascertained as June 192: In the year of the seventh consulate of the emperor Commodus and the second consulate of Helvius Pertinax, day (?) of the month June.