Las inscripciones latinas de Santa Lucía del Trampal (Alcuéscar, Cáceres) y el culto de Atecina en Hispania

Abstract

The excavation and restauration works carried out at the temple of' Santa Lucia del Trampal in Alcuéscar (Cáceres) have provided us with 31 Roman inscriptions, 15 of which are altars dedicated to the native goddess, Ataecina. This series, together with the high number of anepigraphical monuments, is a proof of the up-to-now greatest sanctuary devoted to this goddess, the only one that can be compared with that of Endouellicus, the Lusitanian god. After checking all the inscriptions of Ataecina found in Hispania, we have been able to discover that its worship spred throughout the eastern regions of Lusitania, and that it sometimes was mixed with that of Proserpina. Turibriga/Turobriga, the main worshipping place, may have been located in the territorium of Emerita Augusta, not far away from the temple of Santa Lucia, and near the spot called "Las Torrecillas".