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FERRERE Hautes-Pyrénées, France.

A votive altar dedicated to the deified Mountains, to Silvanus, and to Diana (CIL XIII, 382) was found at a height of ca. 1100 m in the forest of Salabé in the clearing of the Cortail de Tous. It is now kept at the Musée Saint-Raymond at Toulouse.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Labrousse, “Etat-Civil d'un autel votif gallo-romain de la Barousse,” Rev. de Comminges 71 (1958) 1-7; cf. P. Wuilleumier, Inscriptions latines des Trois Gaules (1963) 39, no. 123.

M. LABROUSSE
FERRERE and SOST Hautes-Pyrénées, France.

On top of the Montlas, at a height of 1729 m, have been found several small votive altars of white Saint-Béat marble. They mark the site of a summit cult.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

M. Labrousse in Gallia 7 (1949) 146; G. Fouet, “Cultes gallo-romains de sommets dans nos Pyrénées centrales: le Montlas,” Rev. de Comminges 76 (1963) 8-11.

M. LABROUSSE

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