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Monumentum

Altar of a legionary legate from Apulum

Slab from near the Cathedral at Alba Julia, Apulum in Dacia, found in 1725, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by a legionary legate.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
"Albae Iuliae haud procul a templi altera turri lapis erutus, 1725". The slab certainly comes from the Cathedral which had two belfries. There is therefore a possibility that it should come from Mureș Port but the title of the dedicator makes it more probable that it proveniates from the vicus.CIL III 1111; MMM II No. 302.Soli invicto / restituit / C. Caerellius / Sabinus / leg(atus) Aug(usti) / leg(ionis) XIII gem(inae).C. Caerellius Sabinus was a legatus between 183–185 A.D. Other dedications of the same person were found at Apulum: Iovi optimo Maximo (CIL III 1074);…

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