Inscriptions, Roman Period, Lisboa

Reproduction in stone of four Roman inscriptions (2^nd century AD), discovered in 1749 during the construction of a building in Lisbon (Travessa do Almada), owned by the 1^st Viscount of Vila Nova de Souto, with this information:

• [1] MATRI DE VM MAG(nae) IDAE A FRHYG(igiae) [Ty]che. CERNOPHOR(a) P(er). M(arcum). Jul(ium) CASS(iam). ET CASS(iam). Sev(eram?) M(arco). AT(ilio). ET A(nio). CO(n)S(ulibus)S. GAI(lo)
  To the great mother of the gods, Frigia, [adored on the hill] Ida, [consecrated this memory] to Cernófora Flávia Tyche, by intervention of Marco Júlio Cassiano (?) and Cassia (?) Severa (?), In the consulate of Marco Atílio and Ânio Galo. (Vieira da Silva, nº 25);
• [2] DEVM MATR(i) T(itus) LICINIVS AMARANTIVS V(otum). S(olvit). L(ibens). M(erit)o
  To the mother of the gods. Tito Licínio Amaranto gladly and rightly fulfilled the vote. (Vieira da Silva, nº 26);
• [3] MERCVR[io]...[P](ro) [S](alute) CAESA(is)... AVGVST(i)… C(aius). IVLIVS F(il). IU(s)... PERMISS V. DEC[urionum]... DEDIT. D(edicavit?)…
  To Mercury, for the health of Augustus, offered Caio Júlio Filo (?) with the permission of the decurions. (Vieira da Silva, nº 27);
• [4] L(ucio) CAECILIO. L(ucii.). F(ilio) CELERI. RECTO. QVAEST(ori). PROVINC(iae). BAET(icae) TRIB(uno) PLEB(is) PRAETORI. FEL(elícitas) IVL(ia) OLISIPO
  To Lucio Cecílio Célere Recto, son of Lucio, Questor of the Province of Bética, People's Tribune, Pretor [dedicated] Felicitas Iulia Olisipo (Vieira da Silva, nº 28).

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