Rock-birth statue from Mithraeum III, Aquincum

TNMM 1761 ↔ CIMRM 1760

Altar in limestone (H. 0.91 Br. 0.36 D. 0.03) above the border a cypress between palmettes.

Kuzsinsky in JOAI II 1899 (Beibl.) 56f No. 11 and fig. 19; CIL III 14347.

I(nvicto) d(eo) sacru(m) / pro salute / C(ai) Iuli Victor/[i]n[i] dec(urionis) col(oniae) A/q(uincensium) C(aius) Iul(ius) Pri/mus libert/us v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito) Sat(urnino) / et Gal[l]o co(n)s(ulibus) / X kal(endas) Mai(as).

198 A.D.

C. Iulius Primus occurs also in another Mithraic inscription at Aquincum (above No. 1748). It seems that he and C. Iulius Ingenus of the preceding No. 1759 are both liberti of C. Iulius Victorinus, for whom this altar was erected (cf. CIL III 7922).