The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume 2 Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire - Part 2.1

The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume III: Provincial Cult. Part 2: The Provincial Priesthood

“…He convincingly takes the phrase to mean Roman citizens from Italy and other provinces who have settled in the Three Gauls, a sense that would then explain a reference to Roman citizens after the general extension of Roman citizenship in A.D. , and sees here the same distinction between Roman citizens and aliens that Augustus had made in the east. 146 As we have seen, however, there is no firm evidence in the west for the cult of Roma and Divus Julius as prescribed for Roman citizens in the east, where the distinction between the two groups seems in practice to have been short-lived, 147 nor do we have any indication of the form of cult that might have been paid by this conventus of Roman citizens at Lugdunum. Like that of the Gallic civitates, their worship may well have centred on Roma and Augustus as frequently the case    in Roman colonies.…”

Manifestaciones religiosas de los cultores de los Dii Selecti en Carpetania romana

“…No se estima datación. El dedicante (esclavo por la presencia única del cognomen) y su mujer apelan a Minerva, una divinidad central del sistema religioso romano que en este caso aparece con un epíteto (Augustae) con el que se busca una especial protección o asistencia por parte de esta divinidad al emperador y su familia en un gesto claro de halago y simpatía hacia su persona y su política 37 . Aunque desconozcamos los motivos por los que Mercurio y su mujer se encomendaron a esta divinidad, consideramos que demuestra la adhesión de estos individuos al universo religioso más puramente institucionalizado del municipium de Consabura.…”

The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume III: Provincial Cult. Part 1: Institution and Evolution

“…As we have seen, however, there are overwhelming difficulties in supposing "adlection" as past provincial priest on the part of the local senate of Carales, nor is it obligatory to take adleetus in the Sulci text with inter sa[e] erda tales prov(ineiae) Sard(iniae) rather than simply with in quinque deeurias, to which it is patently appropriate. 146 144 Vol. I,2,356. 145 Krascheninnikoff(1894) 156, n. 42;Kornemann (1901) 127-8. 146 Above, p. 135, n. 126.…”

“…A civic temple of the imperial cult was regularly located on or by the forum at the centre of a town and at this stage was often so placed as to benefit from the prestige of the Capitolium. 146 Whatever the disposition of buildings on the town forum at Camulodunum may have been, the podium is placed in the eastern sector of the town, on the fringe of the settlement-precisely where other provincial temples are situated (PI. 12).147 This pivotal circumstance at once confirms, therefore, the provincial status of the temple long known at Camulodunum and excludes any connection with a possible municipal imperial temple, of which we at present have no knowledge.…”