Editing Unknown God (section)

== Archaeology ==
[[File:Altare del dio ignoto, 110-90 ac ca, dall'area sudorientale del palatino verso il velabro.jpg|thumb|Altar to the Unknown God]]

There is an altar dedicated to the Unknown God found in 1820 on the [[Palatine Hill]] of Rome.
It contains an inscription in Latin that says:

{{poemquote|{{lang|la|SEI·DEO·SEI·DEIVAE·SAC
G·SEXTIVS·C·F·CALVINVSPR
DE·SENATI·SENTENTIA
RESTITVIT|italics=no}}}}

This could be translated into English as: "Whether sacred to god or to goddess, [[Gaius Sextius Calvinus]], son of Gaius, praetor, restored this on a vote of the senate."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dillon |first1=Matthew |title=Ancient Rome: A Sourcebook |last2=Garland |first2=Lynda |author2-link=Lynda Garland |publisher=Routledge |year=2013 |isbn= |page=132}}</ref>

The altar is currently exhibited in the Palatine Museum.<ref>{{cite book |last=Lanciani |first=Rodolfo |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/LANPAC/2*.html#image72 |title=Pagan and Christian Rome |publisher=Houghton, Mifflin and Company |year=1892 |place=Boston and New York}}</ref>