Big limestone jar with Mithraic graffito from room Z, S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

A big jar (H. 0.72 diam. 0.56), found in Z. The upper part is detachable, so that another small cylindrical vase (H. 0.22 Br. 0.31) could be fitted into it. This limestone vase is covered with a lid, on which a graffito. It had a small round hole at the bottom (diam. 0.07), covered with green glass.W. Vollgraff, Une inscription gravée sur un vase cultuel mithriaque, in Med. Ak. Wet. (N.R. 18, No 8) 1955 reads the graffito as follows: Te cauterio i Saturne i Ata[r i] Opi.

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Prof. R. Egger writes me that he does not agree at all with the reading of his friend and colleague Prof. W. Vollgraff…