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Graffito recording a birth on 20 November 202 A.D., S. Prisca Mithraeum, Rome

Graffito on the outside of the left wall of the niche in the S. Prisca Mithraeum, recording a birth before daybreak on 20 November 202 A.D., a Saturday with an eighteenth-day moon, under the consulate of Severus and Antoninus.

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Graffito on the outside of the l.wall of the niche.L.H. 0.05–0.06.Natus prima luce / duobus augg. co(n)s(ulibus) / Severo et Anton[ino] / XII k(alendas) decem[bres] / dies Saturni / luna XVIII.20th November 202 A.D. natus: I suppose a mystical sense.

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