RT Article
T1 a. d. viiii Kalendas Octobres, dies natalis Augusti. Some Considerations on the Astronomical Orientation of Roman Cologne and the Imperial Cult
JF Numen
VO 64
IS 5/6
SP 545
OP 567
A1 Espinosa Espinosa, David
A1 González-García, A. César
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1565003837
AB A key factor in planning and orienting towns in the Roman world, and in particular in Augustan towns, was cosmology. The application of cosmological criteria in these towns, associated with specific political and religious principles of the principate of Augustus, has been already identified in Italia, Gallia, and Hispania. In this article we examine the orientation of the Roman town of Ara Ubiorum (present day Cologne) that could be related with the dies natalis Augusti. Based on these results, such a relation could have been deliberately sought by Roman and Ubian authorities to connect the newly founded town, where there was an ara of the Imperial cult probably consecrated to Rome and Augustus, with Augustus, who was identified with Apollo-Sol.
K1 Roman Cologne : Augustus : cosmology : orientation : Imperial cult : Apollo-Sol
DO 10.1163/15685276-12341479