Monumentum
Marble base for Fons Aeternus from Apulum
Large marble base from near Kutyamál at Apulum, Dacia, dedicated ex iussu dei Apollinis and naming the Fons Aeternus — the eternal spring — by Ulpius Proculinus, speculator of Legio XIII Gemina.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1859 ↔ CIMRM 1971
Marble base (H. 1.04 Br. 0.38–0.50 D. 0.31–0.34) found in the neighbourhood of the Kutyamál. Alba Julia, Muzeul Regional. Inv. No. 18/I. In its top three holes for fastening a statue.
CIL III 989.
L.H. 0.045.
Ex iussu dei / Apollinis fon/tem aeterni Ulp(ius) / Proculinus / speculator / leg(ionis) XIII g(eminae) Gordia/nae a solo resti/tuit.
dei Apollinis aeterni: the epithet deus makes it probable that we have to do with the interpretation of a foreign deity viz. Mithras. See, however, CIL III 1134.
fons: see index.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
