CIMRM 485

TNMM 1037 ↔ CIMRM 485

On the first layer of the left wall there are three lines in the section above door b’, on both sides of which are two series of respectively three and two other lines. On this side however, the paintings have suffered very much from the Christians who damaged them with axes.

The first two lines above I are yet covered by the upper stratum, but they must have got lost for the greater part.

Above the second Leo one can read already:
en ... bsum[p]si
ans fec

Above entrance b’:

Dule. a sicut fe .. na itu Mithra gubernat
P ...... renatus . diit cibum atque cremium
..... i .. ier. . tua . dicatis tu. po. iuvencu

A walking person (Lion) (Nama ..... Leoni) is visible with a palm-branch in the hand.

Behind and above the Leo with the candle-sticks:

Primus e[t fug ?]acius sine tu. ordine currit.
Viros servasti eternali sanguine fuso.
In .ero ut nascent .mina magna Mithra.

Above the mithraic meal:

Accipe thuricremos pater accipe sancte leones
pir quos tauradamus pir quos consumimur ipsi.

We call attention to the fact that this is only our preliminary reading of these highly interesting mithraic hymns. The definitive reading with commentary will be given after the removal of the upper layer of the paintings.