Abstract:

A room linked to an underground cavity with monumental entrance has been interpreted thanks to the finding of two votive inscriptions as a sacred space devoted to the Nymphae, religious cult documented at Tarraco for the first time. This is a very important extra-mural discovery, because this is the first sanctuary in Eastern Hispania archaeologically evidenced. A hypothesis is offered, according to which the worship of the Nymphae in Tarraco could be connected to veterani from the Legio VII Gemina Felix established in the provincial capital, because this cult is well attested in the opposite side (mainly in Gallaecia and northern Lusitania), where the legion was settled.