This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience.
Find out more on how we use cookies in our privacy policy.

 
Enter
Support The New Mithraeum The New Mithraeum is an independent, non-profit project dedicated to Mithraic studies, ancient religions and classical culture. Developed and maintained independently since 2007, the site exists without advertising, paywalls or institutional funding. If you have found value in its articles, interviews, photographs or database, please consider supporting the project with a contribution. Every contribution helps keep The New Mithraeum open, free and alive. Thank you.
Support us →
Monumentum

Altar for Fons Dei

Fragmentary limestone altar dedicated by Septimius Valentinus, an optio, probably discovered in Mithraeum IV at Aquincum.
Altar for Fons Dei.

Altar for Fons Dei.
Ortolf Harl 2007

 
The New Mithraeum
21 May 2026

TNMM 1428 ↔ CIMRM 1810

Altar in limestone in three fragments (H. 0.48 Br. 0.15 D. 0.15).

Font[i d(ei?)] / Sep(timius) Valenti/nus opt(io).

Nagy supplies Fonti dei from an altar discovered in Aquincum, Mithraeum IV about which I have no further information. Possible is also: fonti perenni or fontibus (see epigraphical index).

Main inscription

Font[i d(ei?)] / Sep(timius) Valenti/nus opt(io).
To the spring/source of the god(?), Septimius Valentinus, optio, [dedicated this].

References

Nagy, 107 No. 1 and fig. 4.

Related monuments

Mithraeum of Sárkeszi

One of the largest known Mithraea in Pannonia, the sanctuary of Sárkeszi stood near the Roman road linking Herculia and Aquincum.

Tauroctony from Sárkeszi

In this relief found in the Sárkeszi Mithraeum, Cautes and Cautopates hold an Amazon shield.

Altar to Transitus from Sárkeszi

This is one of the altars erected by Septimius Valentinus, in this case, to the transitus of Mithras.

Altar to Cautes by Septimius Valentinus

Limestone altar dedicated to Cautes by the Roman optio Septimius Valentinus, discovered in the Mithraeum of Sárkeszi in Pannonia Inferior.

 
Back to Top