The altar stones and inscriptions suggest that gods worshipped included Neptune and Oceanus have also been recovered, probably worshipped because of the fort's close proximity to the river.
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An "'altar stone "'is a piece of natural stone containing relics in a cavity and intended to serve as the essential part of an rite was required.
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Evidence for this relies on an inscription on an altar stone, which tells us that Optio Maus ( an NCO within the Cohort ) had repaid a vow to the goddess Coventina.
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The more celebrated reference of this period, was a Greco-Roman altar stone with an inscription in Latin : " AUGE CILEAE MINIME VOT . L . PO ."
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The "'Antimension "'( Church Slavonic : " Antimens " ) is similar to the Western corporal, though it serves a function similar to an altar stone.
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Its present position has led to fanciful tales of its being a sacrificial altar stone and so, in common with many other megalithic monuments, modern pagan meetings and rituals are associated with it.
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The term " movable altar " or " portable altar " is now used of a full-scale structural altar, with or without an inserted altar stone, that can in fact be moved.
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This last norm explicitly excludes the practice customary in recent centuries of inserting relics into a specially created cavity within the table ( the " mensa " ) of an altar or altar stone.
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For the altar stones have been gathered from Old Swede's Church in Delaware, The Church of Laying Our Lady s Holy Robe in Kremlin, Moscow and the Lavra Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine.
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A quadrangular building, nalambalam that encloses the srikovil, the namaskara mandapa, balikkal ( altar stones ) etc . became part of this basic plan composition of the Kerala temple started emerging in this phase.
