Give to Caesar the Things That Are Caesar’s and to Jupiter the Things That Are Jupiter’s. The Concordia Consacranis Relief From Novae and Its Conjectural Connection to Severan Dynasty Reconsidered

The paper contains a reanalysis of a well-known relief from Novae (unearthed in the first year of regular archaeological excavations) depicting the Capitoline Triad, with an inscription mentioning its erection in the context of a religious association of consacrani Iovianorum (AE 1964, 180 bis = ILBulg 273 = KOLENDO, SULTOV 1987 = SCHALLMAYER et alii 1990: 503–504, no. 653 = ILNovae 18 = AE 1991, 1370 = KOLENDO, SULTOV 1991 = IGLNovae 24 = LUNGAROVA 2012b, 151, no. 310 = VALCHEV 2022, 253–254, no. 87). The aim of this article is to propose a different interpretation of the monument and a new dating taking into account the religious, social and political context of its dedication. New methods of documentation enabled an improved reading of the text. It is proven that the inscription was dedicated not by an ex beneficiarius consularis, but by a former beneficiarius legati, which changes the understanding of the dedicant’s career and his role in military administration. The same documentation also allowed for additional considerations regarding the name of the dedicant himself and was useful for identification of same badly damaged letters.