Portable altar
Category
Archaeological material
Date
Unknown
Materials
Stone
Measurements
165 mm (H)102 mm (W)95 mm (D)
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Chedworth Roman Villa, Gloucestershire
NT 73931
Summary
Portable altar - 145.1 One of four small portable altars. Dedicated to Mars Lenus, Celtic god of war, equivalent to the Roman Mars. Depicted in low relief is a figure bearing spear and axe and the inscription ENO MARTI. See Roman Inscriptions of Britain I, no. 126. Found 1864 and drawn by George Fox 1886.