Slab of Cornelio from Trillo

Slab in sandstone, found along the border of the Tagus at Thirmarum (modern Trillo, near Cifuentes, Guadalajara).Sol(i) aug(usto) v(otum) / Dio G(ai) lib(ertus) / s(olvit) l(ibens).The inscription was originally interpreted as a dedication to Sol Augustus by a freedman named Dio and was included by Cumont (MMM II, no. 523) and later by Vermaseren (CIMRM 807) among the testimonies of Mithraic or solar worship in Hispania. A subsequent re-examination by Géza Alföldy demonstrated that the monument is in fact a funerary inscription and should be read:[C(aius)?] Cor(nelius) Aucu/diq(um) C(ai) lib(ertus),“Gaius (?…