Sol and Luna are reversed, and Cautes is a lazy boy, with a column to hold up his arm. 😉 He’s got another pine cone for the corpus. They are important and deserve their own tag.
Indeed: “In front of the altars lay a ritual hearth, fed with special fuel made from Mediterranean pinecones.” Unfortunately, we can’t tag shrines, but this one will pop up when searching the db in full-text mode. Linking it here for reference: https://www.mithraeum.eu/monument/26
salve. The site entry for Gaius Cassius Flavianus says there is attestation that he was part of the mithraeum at Ad Enum, Noricum. Where would I find a reference to this please?
Salve Isabelle, and thank you for pointing this out. You were right: the reference to Ad Enum was due to a database error that incorrectly associated a number of individuals with that location. Gaius Cassius Flavianus is only attested at Inveresk, and the entry has now been corrected. Many thanks for bringing it to our attention!
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For good fortune.
To Helios Mithras, the god who hears (the prayers), Aurelius Marcus, a fuller (processor of woollen textiles), built this sanctuary together with its painted decoration at his own expense as a votive offering in gratitude.
Or, in a slightly more epigraphic style suitable for a scholarly publication:
For good fortune. To Helios Mithras, the god who hears prayers, Aurelius Marcus, a fuller, constructed this sanctuary together with its painted decoration at his own expense as a thank-offering.
Notes
γναφεύς → fuller (the standard archaeological and epigraphic translation), rather than "washer" or "cloth worker".
ἐπήκοος → the god who hears (prayers) or the prayer-hearing god.
εὐχαριστήριον is best rendered as thank-offering, offering in gratitude, or votive offering in gratitude.
If συήλιον is indeed intended for σπήλαιον, then sanctuary or mithraeum is preferable to the more literal "cave", because it reflects the cultic meaning in a Mithraic context. For a book on Mithraism, mithraeum would be the most precise translation.
For good fortune.
To Helios Mithras, the god who hears (the prayers), Aurelius Marcus, a fuller (processor of woollen textiles), built this sanctuary together with its painted decoration at his own expense as a votive offering in gratitude.
Or, in a slightly more epigraphic style suitable for a scholarly publication:
For good fortune. To Helios Mithras, the god who hears prayers, Aurelius Marcus, a fuller, constructed this sanctuary together with its painted decoration at his own expense as a thank-offering.
Notes
γναφεύς → fuller (the standard archaeological and epigraphic translation), rather than "washer" or "cloth worker".
ἐπήκοος → the god who hears (prayers) or the prayer-hearing god.
εὐχαριστήριον is best rendered as thank-offering, offering in gratitude, or votive offering in gratitude.
If συήλιον is indeed intended for σπήλαιον, then sanctuary or mithraeum is preferable to the more literal "cave", because it reflects the cultic meaning in a Mithraic context. For a book on Mithraism, mithraeum would be the most precise translation.