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Virunum

Municipium Claudium Virunum

Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia.

Mithraic monuments of Virunum

 

Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

The bronze bears the dedication of a restoration of a Mithraeum carried out in 183.

 

Mithraeum of Virunum

A bronze plaque records the existence of a mithraeum at Virunum that collapsed and was rebuilt by members of the community.

 

Inscription of the praeses Aurelius Hermodorus

This marble gives some details of the reconstruction of the Virunum Mithraeum.

CIMRM 1431

 

Plaque of Milan by Ulbius Gaianus

This monument dedicated to 'Invicto Patrio' was found in Milan in 1869.

CIMRM 709

 

Slab of S. Urban by Ursinus

Marble plaque with inscription by a certain Ursinus found in Virunum in 1838.

CIMRM 1443

 

Tauroctony relief from Virunum

Three Italian marble fragments from the Zollfeld at Virunum, Noricum, forming a tauroctony relief; the iconography is well preserved and the use of imported Italian marble reflects the high status of the dedicants.

CIMRM 1430

 

Inscription of Diadumenus from Virunum

White marble slab from the Zollfeld at Virunum, Noricum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Diadumenus, arcar(ius) of the imperial dispensator Nicolaus for the kingdom of Noricum.

CIMRM 1432

 

Inscription of Helvius Acceptinus from Virunum

Inscription from Virunum, Noricum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Antonius Severinus by Helvius Acceptinus ex voto.

CIMRM 1433

 

Altar of Ulpius Valerius from Virunum

Lost altar from the Zollfeld at Virunum, Noricum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Ulpius Valerius, speculator of Legio I Noricorum, who fulfilled a vow undertaken by his father.

CIMRM 1434

 

Altar of Iuventinus leo from Virunum

Inscription from Virunum, Noricum, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by Iuventinus, who identifies himself with the Mithraic grade leo — one of the clearest grade attributions in the epigraphic record of Noricum.

CIMRM 1435

 

Altar with ram heads from Töltschach

Small altar found at Töltschach in 1817, Noricum, decorated with the traces of two ram heads flanking foot-prints; the relief is no longer visible and only the inscription survives.

CIMRM 1436

 

Inscription of Eppius Ariminensis filius from Virunum

Inscription from Virunum, Noricum, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae in honour of the Domus Divina by Eppius, son of Ariminensis — a rare instance of filiation used as a sole identifier.

CIMRM 1437

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Inscriptions from Virunum

Plaque with the list of worshippers of Virunum

D[eo] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] pro salute imp[eratoris] [[Commodi]] Auglustil pii / qui templum vii conlapsum impendio suo restituerunt / et mortalitat8is] causa convener[unt] / Marullo
et Aeliano coln/s[ulibus] VI k[alendas] lulias.

[There follows, in four columns, a list of 98 names, all masculine, with the first 34 in the same hand.]

Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus ob dedicationem templi tabulam / aeream donum dedit et camaram picturis exornavit.
To the invincible god Mithras, for the well-being of the emperor Commodus Augustus pius, those who restored at their own expense the temple that had collapsed, and who had gathered with mortality as their reason, during the consulship of Marullus and Aelianus, on the 6th day before the kalends of July. […] Tiberius Claudius Quintilianus, on the occasion of the dedication of the temple, offered this bronze plaque as a gift, and decorated the chamber with paintings.

Inscription of the praeses Aurelius Hermodorus

D[eo] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] templum vetusta[te] / conlabsum quot [sic] fuit / per annos amplius / L desertum, Aur[elius] / Hermodorus v[ir] p[erfectissimus] pr[aeses] pr[ovinciae] N[orici] / M[edi]t[erranei] a novo restitui fecit. / Quot edificatum est divo / Maximiano VIII et Maximino it[e]r[um] / A[u]gg[ustis] con[sulibus] Quar [tinio] Ursiniano cur [ante].
To the invincible god Mithras. This temple that collapsed because of age, which was abandoned for more than 50 years, Aurelius Hermodorus, a most perfect man, governor of the province of Mediterranean Noricum, restored from scratch. This construction was done during the eighth consulship of the divine Maximianus Augustus and second consulship of Maximinus Augustus, with Quartinius Ursinianus overseeing the work.

Plaque of Milan by Ulbius Gaianus

Invicto / patrio / Ulb[ius] Gaianus / praef[ectus] vehic[ulorum].

Slab of S. Urban by Ursinus

Deo invic/to Metras / Ursianus do/num posuet.
To the invincible god Mithras, Ursianus deposited this offering.

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