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Altar of Sextus Cornelius Antiochus from Salona

Altar from Salona, Dalmatia, found in 1884, dedicated by Sextus Cornelius Antiochus to Soli deo, who donated both a star and a fructifera — interpreted as Sol and Luna — following a vision.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026

TNMM 1827 ↔ CIMRM 1876

Ara reperta 1884.

CIL III 8686; MMM II No. 315; Grabičević in Vjesnik LIV, 1952, 51ff.

Soli deo / Sex(tus) / Cornel(ius) / Antiochus / stellam / et fructi/fer(am) ex vis(u) / lib(ens) pos(uit).

Grabičević rightly interprets frugiferam as Luna and stellam as Sol. In Močiči (No. 1882) on a Mithraic relief the Sun is indeed represented as a star with seven rays. Cf. No. 2360.

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