Nierendorf / Nithirindorp
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human figure - female - unidentified
Scene Description: a Roman goddess?
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human figure - male - unidentified
Scene Description: a Roman god?
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: on the upper surface of the rim
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human figure - male - unidentified
Scene Description: a Roman god?
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!["Abbildung ist im Eifelkalender 1955 als Kopfbild zum Monat September" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0260205126_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Abbildung ist im Eifelkalender 1955 als Kopfbild zum Monat September" [cf. FontNotes]
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Scene Description: illustration for the month of Sptember featuring the re-purposed Roman votive altar
Image Source: reproduction of an old colendar cover [https://www.dilibri.de/ubtr/periodical/pageview/1578603] [accessed 5 February 2026]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 26103HZB
Object Type: Other
Object Details: Roman altar
Font Century and Period/Style: 2nd - 3rd century (?), Roman [altered]
Museum: Rheinische Landesmuseum at Trier [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Peter in Ketten in Grafschaft-Nierendorf
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter ad Vincula
Previous Font Location(s): was it originally from the Kapelle an der Römerstraße (Nierendorf)?
Church Notes: NB: we have no evidence of this object ever having been in, or belonged to the present parish church at Niederdorf
Church Address: Johannes-Häbler-Straße 3, 53501 Grafschaft, Germany
Site Location: Ahrweiler, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Nierendorf is located off road L80, in the municipality and 4-5 km E of Grafschaft, on the left bank of the Rhine river, about 20 km S of Bonn
Additional Comments: re-purposed Roman votive altar
Font Notes:
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Noted in Matthias Wagner's Die ersten Spuren des Christentums an der Ahr, in the Kreisverwaltung Aherweiler [https://heimatjahrbuch.kreis-ahrweiler.de/die-ersten-spuren-des-christentums/] [accessed 5 February 2026], as the Jupiter Column, whose base was used as a baptismal font in the Nierendorf chapel. It is now in the State Museum in Trier, a good illustration of which appeared as the cover image for September in the 1955 Eifel Calendar: "Ein klarer Beweis für die dortige Tätigkeit der Römer ist die Jupitersäule, deren Sockel in der Kapelle zu Nierendorf als Taufstein benutzt wurde; er befindet sich heute im Landesmuseum in Trier, eine gute Abbildung ist im Eifelkalender 1955 als Kopfbild zum Monat September." Listed and illustrated in the Epigraphic Database Hedelberg [HD-Nr: HD080050] [https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD080050] [accessed 5 February 2026] as a "Votive inscription from Grafschaft (Germania inferior)" on a pillar dedicated to Jupiter, and dated "101 AD – 300 AD"; year of find: before 1899 [...] present location: Bonn, Rhein. Landesmus [...] type of monument: honorific/grave/votive column [...] material: Kalkstein [...] height: (68) cm; width: 63 cm; depth: 62 cm [...] Name: L. Pisinius Celsus".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 368989 5604805
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.58044, 7.14952
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 34′ 49.58″ N, 7° 8′ 58.27″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: square
Height of Base: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Height (less Plinth): 68 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 62 x 63 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: on one side of the pillar
Inscription Text: "I-O-M / L PISINIVS CEL / SVS"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]